{"id":186,"date":"2010-05-05T11:16:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T10:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nax.cz\/2010\/05\/05\/java-web-start-in-firefox-359\/"},"modified":"2010-05-05T11:16:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T10:16:45","slug":"java-web-start-in-firefox-359","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"java web start in Firefox 3.5.9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I needed upgrade java on my laptop because of a new version of one enterprise tool we use at work. I normally downloaded and installed Java from java.com and linked java plugin to my ~\/.mozilla\/plugins (in my case \/usr\/lib\/jvm\/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20\/jre\/plugin\/i386\/ns7\/libjavaplugin_oji.so).<\/p>\n<p>But when I restarted Firefox and browsed to a page with java web start, I got following message:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;<em><filename> could not be opened, because the associated helper application does not exist. Change the association in your preferences.<\/filename><\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Strange was, that to simply change association of JNLP in ~\/.mailcap didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>It took a while, but finally I found <a href=\"http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/The_associated_helper_application_does_not_exist\">mozilla documentation<\/a> with a hint to rename mimeTypes.rdf in Firefox profile (do not delete the default one!).<\/p>\n<p>Well, when I restarted Firefox again, it gave me a same message, but when I changed it in preferences again (to \/usr\/lib\/jvm\/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20\/jre\/javaws\/javaws) it started to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I needed upgrade java on my laptop because of a new version of one enterprise tool we use at work. I normally downloaded and installed Java from java.com and linked java plugin to my ~\/.mozilla\/plugins (in my case \/usr\/lib\/jvm\/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20\/jre\/plugin\/i386\/ns7\/libjavaplugin_oji.so). But when I restarted Firefox and browsed to a page with java web start, I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}