Someone posted in comp.lang.java.programmer that he has the latest release
version (JDK 1.6.0) and the Sun Java Console doesn't work.
I was running a more recent pre-release build (JDK 1.7 build 02) and
uninstalled it and installed the current pre-release JDK 1.7 build 04 (from
http://download.java.net/jdk7/binaries/) but this does not restore the Sun
Java Console in Firefox.
Does anyone know how to get this working properly?
Some of us actually do use the Java Console. The message during the Firefox
upgrade implied that the removal of the Java Console was a bug, not a
feature, but the recommended fix, which may be a generic recommendation, did
not help.
As a workaround one can launch the console from a tray icon, but it would be
nice not to have to devote tray space to something that is supposed to work
from the Firefox menu.
When Firefox updated to 2.0.0.1 it checked the installed extensions and
since the Java console extension only specified that it would work with
2.0 it was disabled.
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Tony Evans
Nightly tester tools seems to have allowed console version 1.6.0 to
run on Firefox 2.0.0.1 on my machine.
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Mr.E
There is now a bug report about this problem:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6506635