On Saturday 12 August 2006 00:58, Walt wrote: > On Friday 11 August 2006 15:42, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Stanton also said to test the JRE plugin at > > http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=97, and click the start button. But I > > can't find one, and there's a window on the page saying "do you want to > > install the plugin?" As far as I know, if thats referring to JRE, it's > > installed. > > > > I must admit, that I'm at a bit of a loss at the moment, not sure whether > > the JRE is required by this french site to use IRC, and have no way to > > check whether the JRE is working. Doh. > > > > Nigel. > > Nigel: > > I have used the following for testing Java: > http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml > > I also found that Java scripts were failing because my router was blocking > them. I think it was the filter "Popup Windows" that blocked the Java > script functions. Firefox does a good job of that so I shut off that > filter. > > walt > ----- Walt Jamison walter.jamison@xxxxxxxxxxx ----- Hi Walt. Problem solved. I'd created the link to the Java plugin in /usr/java, from Mozilla, but not from Firefox as well. Once I'd created the link from Firefox, the applet on the test page played ok. Thanks for the help. Nigel.
