[NTLUG:Discuss] I hate IcedTea

[Leroy Tennison]

<Rant> I understand the desire for open source alternatives to 
proprietary technology but they have to work...  A recent OpenSuse 
update stopped a working IcedTea configuration to my corporate network 
and I really need that connection right now. </Rant>

For those using OpenSuse the solution may be to switch back to Java, for 
me it meant:

Disabled IcedTea in firefox
Downloaded the latest x64 jre from java.com (didn't use an rpm, did tar 
-xzf ...)
Created /usr/java, moved the download there and expanded it, created 
symlink 'latest' to the jre... directory
Found firefox.sh installed by OpenSuse and discerned from it that 
plugins are kept in /usr/lib64/browser-plugins
In /usr/lib64/browser-plugins I renamed javaplugin.so to 
javaplugin.so-bad (no pun intended)
Created a javaplugin symlink (hmmm, just realized I left off the so 
extension...) to /usr/java/latest/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so (per a web 
reference)
Restarted firefox - an again-working solution!

Hope this can help someone else.