Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

[dplentini]

I just started running Hardy 8.04.1 with KDE 4.1 and I love the new system. But I find that neither Firefox nor Konqueror will load some Web pages that load just find in Windows and Mac. The pages aren't obscure either: Earthlink.net won't load; and pages on the op-ed blogs of the NY Times won't load. What can I do to fix this?

TIA

[Fintan]

Re: Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

Do you have kubuntu-restricted-extras installed?

Commonly used restricted packages
This package depends on some commonly used packages in the Kubuntu
multiverse repository.

Installing this package will pull in support for MP3 playback and decoding,
Java runtime environment, Flash plugin, DVD playback, and LAME (to create
compressed audio files).

Please note that packages from multiverse are restricted by copyright
or legal issues in some countries. See
http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing
for more information.

[dplentini]

Re: Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

Yes, I do.

Do you have kubuntu-restricted-extras installed?

Commonly used restricted packages
This package depends on some commonly used packages in the Kubuntu
multiverse repository.

Installing this package will pull in support for MP3 playback and decoding,
Java runtime environment, Flash plugin, DVD playback, and LAME (to create
compressed audio files).

Please note that packages from multiverse are restricted by copyright
or legal issues in some countries. See
http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing
for more information.

[dibl]

Re: Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

I just looked at Earthlink.net -- that may be a java app. Try installing the package sun-java6-jre and then restart your browser and see if it's any different.

[Teunis]

Re: Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

Yep for some sites Java is important.

In case 'just' installing the jre does not do the trick you want the sun-java6-plugin as well.

[dplentini]

Re: Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

Thanks, dibl and Teunis. I've installed all of the Java packages I can access through Adept, but command to install the Java 6 plugin is disabled. Any ideas? Do I need to do the installations using sudo apt-get?

[Snowhog]

Re: Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

...but command to install the Java 6 plugin is disabled.

Hmm? Can you elaborate? What do you mean "is disabled"? The package sun-java6-plugin is available in Adept Manager.

[mjtolsma]

Re: Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

If you run the following command from the console:

java -version

what result do you get?

[dplentini]

Re: Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

Here's the response to the query:

java version "1.6.0"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b09)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0-b09, mixed mode

[dplentini]

Re: Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

...but command to install the Java 6 plugin is disabled.

Hmm? Can you elaborate? What do you mean "is disabled"? The package sun-java6-plugin is available in Adept Manager.

The option appears, but I can't select it; it's greyed-out.

[Detonate]

Re: Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

Install the icedtea plugin.

sudo apt-get install icedtea-gcjwebplugin

[mjtolsma]

Re: Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

First of all, try doing from the command line:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin

If it doesn't install the file, then perhaps the file is already on your computer? In that case, try:

cd /home/ your directory

cd .mozilla
ls

if there isn't a directory called plugins, do: mkdir plugins

then:

cd plugins
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

This will make a link to the file already located on your computer (presumably this directory, if you run a 64 bit system the i386 could be called different (i don't know).

[dplentini]

Re: Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

First of all, try doing from the command line:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin

If it doesn't install the file, then perhaps the file is already on your computer? In that case, try:

cd /home/ your directory

cd .mozilla
ls

if there isn't a directory called plugins, do: mkdir plugins

then:

cd plugins
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

This will make a link to the file already located on your computer (presumably this directory, if you run a 64 bit system the i386 could be called different (i don't know).

I tried the first approach and got the following:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package sun-java6-plugin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package sun-java6-plugin has no installation candidate

[dplentini]

Re: Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

Install the icedtea plugin.

sudo apt-get install icedtea-gcjwebplugin

I installed it already:

apt-get install icedtea-gcjwebplugin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
icedtea-gcjwebplugin is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[Detonate]

Re: Firefox and Konqueror Won't Load Some Web Pages

Have you checked to make sure java and java script are enabled in the preferences under the "Content" tab in firefox?