OS: Ubuntu 9.0.4 Browser: Firefox 3.6.10 upon updating to firefox 3.6.10, java does not work at all. websites that use java do not work at all anymore, when they worked just fine before the updating thru update manager. e.g. hulu website cannot play any of the shows. i can give the folder of bookmarked pages i tried. how to do that on here, i've yet to see if possible. i can even give saved text from the terminal concerning certain attempts. when i updated thru update manager, it gave some weird java plugin that wasn't there before "The IcedTea Web Browser Plugin IcedTea6 Java Web Browser Plugin (execution of applets on webpages)". i uninstalled this as instructed by an answer found in one of the pages i saved, cuz it was conflicting w/another java program the updater said i needed. right now, i don't remember for sure what it was. it perhaps was realplayer flash or Java itself. w/all the hours/days of searching i put in, it's difficult if not downright impossible for me to remember all the specifics of what i tried. i've searched throughout many webpages (including many searches on mozilla, ubuntu, java, etc) for instruction in fixing the problem. oh, and incidentally, on the Java site, when i try the verify test of Java, firefox pops up with that yellow bar right below the slew of tabbed website windows, giving the statement "additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page. (w/link to) install missing plugins ." which is what i do, go thru the requesting plugin installation. it comes up with, guess what, the IcedTea Java Plugin. i click on the 'next' in the "Plugin Finder Service" box that pops up, & all it gives me is "No plugins were installed. IcedTea ...Plugin failed. and the link 'find out more about plugins or manually find missing plugins'". the link takes me to some of the very things/plugins that wouldn't install in the first place. the Java test failure is a LOL funny, as what plugin it is saying is required (IcedTea) is a recommended alternate program to display the very test in the first place. i followed the given instructions on those many searched pages, in every case (barring what i may have just plain missed), but to no avail. i've even gone to the point of trying to reinstall the previous 3.5.13 firefox version, from mozilla site. even that wouldn't install. i've tried installing Java for my sys direct from it's site. nada. now it's time for me to post the problem & perhaps someone will come up with some kind of "dummy" way to fix it. until then many sites a regularly use are totally useless to me on this fast puter. the only way i can get to use such sites, are two choices: 1. use a dinosaur laptop, which is slower than molasses & cannot handle to any streaming stuff, or 2. use an available internet access puter at the library. but useage for ea person per day is limited to only one hour a day. and one can end up waiting for an hour or more ( in the busiest periods) to even get to use one. so, is there anyone at all, who knows any for-sure working fix for this problem? thanks muchly :^D p.s. i can't pay anybody any money for such help, as is required in certain sites (e.g. Java website), cuz i don't have any. i can pay in labor tho, if there is someway to find someone who can physically be at this puter w/me, taking me step-by-step sorry for the 20-pg essay. i hope it was all clearly understood. if, not, well, clear communication is always what is needed, ask away.