Firefox blocked Icetea Plug-in, how do I unblock?

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy firefox

Thanks

larry@larry-desktop:~$ lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy firefox
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
Linux larry-desktop 2.6.32-40-generic #87-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 5 20:26:31 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
firefox:
  Installed: 11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2
  Candidate: 11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2
  Version table:
 *** 11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
larry@larry-desktop:~$

What message do you get to say it it blocked?
Do you have any blocking addons?

I don't get any message now, but when firefox blocked it, firefox gave me a message that it contained a security risk and they were blocking it. Today I learned that it was blocked in error and firefox fixed their problem, but didn't fix mine.

It wasn't "broke" in the first place and they"fixed" it. Yet they didn't un-block it and I don't know how to. I did go to firefox's check your plug-ins and it showed that it was not en-abled, so I clicked the enable button and tried it and got the same result. So I went back and clicked it again to put it back where it was.

It was working fine before they blocked it. I keep my system current and up to date, I install all updates as soon as the Update Manager informs me that they are available, as indicated by the above information.

Is it possible to just delete the plug-in and then, using apt, re-install it? Will that make the problem go away?

Have you gone to Tools+Add-ons+Plugins and enabled IceTea plug in? It's working on mine after I did that.

Michael
yes I did. That's what I meant when I said , above, I did go to firefox's check your plug-ins ... and clicked "enable".

If you want Oracle Java, you can run:

cd $HOME; wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8850924/install32bitJava; chmod +x ./install32bitJava; sudo ./install32bitJava

I did a dpkg -l | less
I see:
icetea-6-jre-cacao 6b20-1.9.13-0ubuntu1~10.04.1
icetea6-plugin 6b20-1.9.13-0ubuntu1~10.04.1
java-common 0.34

Will I have to delete anything before I start the "wget and install" sequence?

No, just go for it...

OK, I ran the wget command as recommended and it seemed to run successfully, but that did not fix the problem.

I wonder if the images I've been looking at and assuming they were java applets, are actually from the flash plug-in. Is it possible that the flash plug-in was affected by this block? I have no idea, I'm just guessing. What I do know is, everything worked before I got the block message from firefox. Now none of it works.

In the past, if I got a stock quote using google financial, in addition to the quote (text), I got a graph of the days activity, now I don't get the graph with the quote.

Now that I look closer at the wget command responses, it didn't end successfully! Here's how it ended.

Unpacking unp (from .../archives/unp_1.0.15_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up unp (1.0.15) ...

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
./jre-7u3-linux-i586.tar.gz
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
mv: cannot stat `/home/larry/jre1.7.0_03/': No such file or directory
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.7.0_03/bin/java doesn't exist.
There is only one alternative in link group java: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java
Nothing to configure.
./install32bitjava: line 12: cd: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins: No such file or directory
larry@larry-desktop:~$

Sam
I don't understand what you're asking of me. I got your email but I don't
see a question.

Are you asking for more information or what?

Larry

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Sam_
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Your question #192640 on openjdk-6 in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/+question/192640
>
> Project: firefox in Ubuntu => openjdk-6 in Ubuntu
>
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> You received this question notification because you asked the question.
>

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Forgive me for the delay, I'm an old man, 74 years old, and the frustration got to me. But I'm back to try again. here's where I am now. I have downloaded jre-6u31-linux-i586.bin and installed it in my home directory. When I got to the part in the instructions that cover "enable and configure", I got a bit confused. Seems my brain isn't as swift as it use to be. I'm almost ashamed to admit I used to be a hardware tech for a large computer company.

I still help on enable and configure.

Larry

I guess we should close this out. Today I solved the problem by downloading and installing Google Chrome Browser and it works as well as Firefox did, (faster, too), before they started dinking around with it.

I intend to upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS as soon as the stable version is available anyway. What I learned from this is Chrome should be my default browser instead of Firefox.

My thanks to all who tried to help me solve this problem.

Larry Williams