

I'm here to report a small side effect from installing this service pack that I was not aware of until just a few days ago: Apparently, the. Having earlier checked to see whether the service pack had caused any widespread problems or interfered with third-party programs - and not finding any that warranted waving readers away from this update - I told readers not to worry and to go ahead and install it. A number of readers had never heard of this platform before Windows Update started offering the service pack for it, and many of you wanted to know whether it was okay to go ahead and install this thing. NET Framework, like other updates, was pushed out to users through the Windows Update Web site. NET Framework, which Microsoft and plenty of third-party developers use to run a variety of interactive programs on Windows. Be sure not to do this with your main firefox application.A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number of users surfing the Web with Mozilla's Firefox Web browser.Įarlier this year, Microsoft shipped a bundle of updates known as a "service pack" for a programming platform called the Microsoft. That way it never gets updated accidentally. One of my colleagues created a script to remove the old firefox, and untar it on every run. verify the plugin is active (check about:plugins).copy this to the mozilla/firefox plugin folders (I couldn't figure out which one to copy it too, so I just copied it to anything firefox/plugins or mozilla/plugins).Now your openJDK installation will contain a IcedTeaPlugin.so file in the jre/lib folder.

Install the icedtea-plugin and the icedtea-plugin.Download a tar of Firefox, version 51 (newer version don't support the plugin).After a long trial-and-error approach, I got IcedTea working consistently in an older version of firefox like this: I need in-browser Java for legacy work-related websites, and the oracle java plugin does not cut it. I figured someone else might be in the same situation. This is an old thread, but I stumbled upon it while googling a solution to my problem today.
