IcedTea Java doesn't work in google chrome

[Firidan]

Every time I visit any webpage that has java applets an error message pops up saying that IcedTea plug-in has crashed. Since java work fine in firefox and Eclipse IDE I think it's a some kind of bug in chrome or IcedTea.

Thanks in advance!

[gordintoronto]

I suspect my approach is unpopular: when I want Java, I want the real thing.

If you Google cool shisen the first result is a Java game. Can you play it with Icedtea?

[Firidan]

Actually it does work :confused: . The game that doesn't work is need for madness 2 http://www.radicalplay.com/madcars/
Runescape doesn't work either. How do I remove IcedTea and Open JDK and replace with Sun's JRE?

[howefield]

As far as I can see, Sun Java should peacefully co-exist with OpenJDK, so enabling the partner repository and installing sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin and sun-java6-fonts and then running in terminal


sudo update-alternatives --config java

should do the trick.

[Firidan]

Thanks! It worked.