Re: Java Access in Firefox

[Samuel Sieb]

On 05/08/2016 05:36 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>  I am currently using Firefox 49.0a1 on both Linux and Windows and
>
> on both systems Firefox will not activate Java, this has been the case
> for several versions of Firefox. I have to java plugin in the
> appropriate mozilla directories, but Firefox will still not use it. I
> have also checked about:config and there appears to be no java entries
> in there whatsoever.
>  Does anyone know any way to activate Java in these versions of
>
> Firefox?

You shouldn't have to do any manual linking or copying.  Install the 
icedtea-web package and it should just work.  I've been using it for a 
long time.