Hardy 64 firefox no java, is gij any good?

[jlittle]

The Hardy upgrade removed java in firefox. (I like FF3, it fixes a long standing glitch for me.) I had the blackdown j2re plugin, and it seems this no longer works.
There's no sun-java*-plugin packages for 64 bit.
Only gij installed, but it didn't render well the site I wanted, had to boot windows to book some cinema tickets that used a java applet for the seating plan.

So, how does gij compare, where is it going? If I use the AMD64 installer from the sun site, will that work? Do I get the .rpm and convert it to .deb for Kubuntu?

[yossarianuk]

Re: Hardy 64 firefox no java, is gij any good?

Hi.

The icedtea 64bit gcj java plugin does work for some Java sites - not others - i.e www.jmeeting.com

In Kubuntu the easiest way of using 64bit java on a 64bit system (with kde) is to use konqueror - with konqueror you can install the 64bit Sun java jre - you then just tell konqueror where the java binary is.

It works flawlessly - to get any java apps working with a login (i.e www.jmeeting.com) you must disable the securoty options in the java preferences in konqueror.

Hope this helps.