
Enable java in firefox 64 bit how to#
Be sure not to do this with your main firefox application. This wikiHow teaches you how to turn on Java support in Firefox, both on a per-website basis and across the entire browser, as well as how to enable JavaScript for your Firefox browser. That way it never gets updated accidentally. One of my colleagues created a script to remove the old firefox, and untar it on every run. You have to copy the plug-in to your /. verify the plugin is active (check about:plugins) This article describes how to enable Java applets in Firefox (Linux) when they don't run by default.copy this to the mozilla/firefox plugin folders (I couldn't figure out which one to copy it too, so I just copied it to anything firefox/plugins or mozilla/plugins).Now your openJDK installation will contain a IcedTeaPlugin.so file in the jre/lib folder.
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Install the icedtea-plugin and the icedtea-plugin.Download a tar of Firefox, version 51 (newer version don't support the plugin).After a long trial-and-error approach, I got IcedTea working consistently in an older version of firefox like this: I need in-browser Java for legacy work-related websites, and the oracle java plugin does not cut it. I figured someone else might be in the same situation. This is an old thread, but I stumbled upon it while googling a solution to my problem today. I need to enable Java (1.6.020) for Mozilla browsers.I know this can be done during install of Java or through the console (as admin) if already installed.
