icedtea-web-plugin

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 26 Jan 2021
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NAME

icedtea-web-plugin - long ago allowed to run applets in your favorite browser no longer exists

SYNOPSIS

icedtea-web-plugin is working in your browser, once your browser knows about this files.

The IcedTeaPlugin.so must be placed, or linked inside specific directories. See http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Plugin

Mozilla compatible browsers like Firefox, Midori, Epiphany, Chrome or Chromium use:

$HOME/.mozilla/plugins: Location of plugin library for user's purposes on Mozilla compliant browser.
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins: Location of plugin library for global purposes on Mozilla compliant browser, 64-bit systems.
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins: Location of plugin library for global purposes on Mozilla compliant browser, 32-bit systems.

Opera family browsers like Opera use:

/usr/lib64/opera/plugins: Location of plugin library for global purposes on opera compliant browser, 64-bit systems.
/usr/lib/opera/plugins: Location of plugin library for global purposes on opera compliant browser, 32-bit systems.

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FILES

$HOME/.mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so: Location of plugin library for user's purposes on Mozilla compliant browser.
$XDG_CACHE_HOME/icedtea-web/cache/recently_used: Additional information about items in cache
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/icedtea-web/generated_jnlps: Location where jnlp files generated from html pages for javaws applications desktop/menu launchers icons are stored
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so: Location of plugin library for global purposes on Mozilla compliant browser, 32-bit systems.
/usr/lib/opera/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so: Location of plugin library for global purposes on opera compliant browser, 32-bit systems.
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so: Location of plugin library for global purposes on Mozilla compliant browser, 64-bit systems.
/usr/lib64/opera/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so: Location of plugin library for global purposes on opera compliant browser, 64-bit systems.

Where $XDG_CONFIG_DIR, $XDG_CACHE_DIR and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR are set as ~/.config, ~/.cache and /tmp or /var/tmp if not set.

BUGS

There aren't any known bugs. If you come across one, please file it at:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Filing_bugs
https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/icedtea-web/issues

Please run in debug (-verbose switch or itw-settings setting or ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG variable set to true) mode and include that output (best is from the console) with URL to jnlp or html file (or the jnlp/html file or application itself) when filling out the bug report.

AUTHOR

https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/icedtea-web/graphs/contributors