I'd forgotten that about:plugins is so useful. Do you know the Debian/Ubuntu alternatives scheme? Its a way to specify a system-wide default editor, etc. See "man update- alternatives"
On Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 I had to use (as root) update-alternatives --config xulrunner-1.9-javaplugin.so You can see the possible "alternatives" via ls -al /etc/alternatives. The update-alternatives command manages asll these symbolic links. You want to have the xul-runner thing point to a Sun plug in, not an Open JDK or IcedTea or some such thing. You'll probably get some choices. (Presuming you have the right packages installed.) THEN check about:plugins after a restart of Firefox. Good luck. ;-) On Mar 7, 12:43 pm, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's interesting -- there is no java at all listed in the list of > plugins. This is with 32-bit ubuntu. > > John > > 2009/3/7 gerhard <ge01...@yahoo.de>: > > > > >> with all sorts of JRE's > > one possible reason for this problem is > > the plugin firefox may be using. > > > check by typing > > about:plugins > > in the title bar, > > and make sure it is the plugin you expect > > (sun's jre) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
