Re: F14: how do I remove IcedTea plugin from FIreFox?

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/03/2010 01:27 AM, Tony Camuso wrote:
>  I have an applet that will not work with IcedTea. This applet is a
> remote
>  console applet spawned by the HP iLO web interface and is critical for my
>  work.
>  
>  With F13, I was able to successfully install the Oracle jre and soft link
>  the correct plugin. 
>  
>  Recently, I upgraded to F14. Of course, the Open jre with IcedTea came with 
>  F14, so I "yum erase" the jre and "rpm -ivh" the Oracle jre, just as
> I did
>  in F13, an soft linked to the correct plugin thus:
>  
>  # ln -sf /usr/java/latest/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
>  
>  ... which is what I did in F13. 
>  
>  However, I have actually removed everything from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
>  and from my /home/user/.mozilla/plugins directories, and I am still seeing
>  plugins in FireFox, most annoyingly, this one. 
>  
>      File: IcedTeaPlugin.so
>      Version: 
>      The IcedTea NPR Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea6 1.8 (fedora-41.b18.fc13-i386))
> executes Java applets.
>  
>  Appreciate any and all help ... 
The package you need to remove is java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin.

We are always interested in any applets that don't work with the
IcedTea plugin, so if you can let us have some way of reproducing the
problem we'll have a look.

Andrew.