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notthenewsreader

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Registered: 2015-09-25

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Icedtea plugin works in Firefox but not Chromium [SOLVED]

Hi guys

I'm confused, can anyone tell me why the Icedtea plugin works in Firefox but not Chromium? I am studying a course with the Open University and there is a page that will not display properly in Chromium. I have also tried Chrome but the same thing.

This is the link by the way - http://speedtest.open.ac.uk:8000/tu100. In Firefox I get some warnings I have to ok through but in Chromium I get a blank box with "This plug-in is not supported"

I have installed Icedtea and tried to enable it in chrome://plugins but it doesn't even appear in there.

Can someone help me, please?

Last edited by notthenewsreader (2015-09-25 19:22:43)

ugjka

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Re: Icedtea plugin works in Firefox but not Chromium [SOLVED]

I suspect Icedtea is NPAPI based which chrome/-ium no longer supports

http://blog.chromium.org/2014/11/the-fi … npapi.html

notthenewsreader

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Registered: 2015-09-25

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Re: Icedtea plugin works in Firefox but not Chromium [SOLVED]

ah, I see. Is there any other way to run Java applets in Chromium or do I have to use Firefox for all pages with Java applets?

Chazza

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Re: Icedtea plugin works in Firefox but not Chromium [SOLVED]

You have to use Firefox: https://java.com/en/download/faq/chrome.xml

notthenewsreader

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Re: Icedtea plugin works in Firefox but not Chromium [SOLVED]

ah, right! Thanks very much, I have been using Firefox for such pages but thought there might be a way around it. Thanks for all your help :-)