Java & Javascript Test Page

[Paul Komski]

Got this from the Firebird forums.

Click HERE (http://www.bodo.com/javame.htm) to test if JavaScript and Java are enabled in your browser.

[PrntRhd]

Thanks Paul,

The Java extension helps load the right version of Java into Firebird easily.

:D :D

[jeeza]

Originally posted by Paul Komski
Click HERE (http://www.bodo.com/javame.htm) to test if JavaScript and Java are enabled in your browser.
Shouldn't they be enabled after you clicked in the appropriate boxes ?
This must be for highly doubting thomases.

[david eaton]

useful though if you have just installed Sun Java instead of the M$ kludge, or want to check out firebird!

[jeeza]

I have Java enabled by default in my Firebird browser, yet that test is telling me to download the plugin.
I seem to have this problem all the time. Although I have downloaded Java 2 RE several times, I always have to use IE when I want to visit a site using applets.
Recently I found that the problem may reside in the panel asking to check which browser you want to have enabled.
There are three options : MSIE, Netscape, and Mozilla.
I have tried this several times now, and every time I check Mozilla (as I use Firebird) or Netscape, when closing the panel it is asking me to verify my browser's installation, or to make sure I have administrator's privileges, or something like that.
I don't have this problem however if I check MSIE.

[malcore]

If you installed Firebird using a zip file and not the (unofficial) installer, then you need to add some info to your registry so the JRE can recognize your browser.

See here (http://texturizer.net/firebird/faq.html#q2.2)

[PrntRhd]

I had used the (unofficial) installer when I loaded this version of Firebird and Pauls' link worked fine.
I did notice the Java installation on Firebird made my IE 6.0 not save passwords for (Lotus Notes) iNotes as a side effect however.

[stefanus]

Thanx Paul! Looks like I have JAVA SCRIPT. (What is it):confused: :o :D
Stefanus

[jeeza]

Originally posted by malcore
If you installed Firebird using a zip file and not the (unofficial) installer, then you need to add some info to your registry so the JRE can recognize your browser.
I went to the webpage and downloaded and installed that .reg file you are supposed to use if you used the Firebird zip file; it didn't work however, Jave still not working for Firebird.
Got a whole load of complications today and re-downloaded and installed successively the installer and the zip file; had to copy some subdirectories from the old Windows/Application data/Phoenix/, not sure about outcome as yet.

[malcore]

XPInstall (http://java.sun.com/getjava/manual.html) , just click on the first install link and Firebird's XPInstall will make the correct settings to have Java function properly, just like installing extensions or themes using javascript.

[jeeza]

Don't you have to have XP installed to use that, malcore ?

Anyhow, it works, I am Java-enabled. Yahoo !
This time, I didn't try to check the Mozilla box in the Java configuration panel, so that was probably the mistake I made yesterday.

[malcore]

Don't you have to have XP installed to use that, malcore ?

No actually, XPInstall is "a technology for doing cross-platform installations, packaging and sofware updates."

Using javascript within your webpage, it runs an installer to update or add a new program or feature. The link above is for all Windows using Netscape/Mozilla/Firebird.


Glad you got it sorted.

[pave_spectre]

Java was easy to enable in FireBird on Slackware. Once I installed Java I just needed to create a symlink in the plugins directory and Voila, java.:)

[mike2002]

Paul: Further to my earlier query about I.E.6. 'hanging'. I uninstalled/reinstalled I.E.6 but it's still doing it.

In addition, some webpage links, your "Click HERE to test if JavaScript and Java are enabled in your browser." for example, do not work. However, if I Copy the link and Paste it into a new page, it loads as normal. Not only that, but my Java popups do not work either.

In the Javascript Test Page, it tells me that everything's OK, but the Calculator page does not work. I.E. loads the page, says 'Done' but the page is blank.

Is there a cure for all this?

[Paul Komski]

response in original thread http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=165431#post165431