Stupid question of the day

[crossbow1]

What is all this? Can I delete them? I'm trying to figure out why my browser keeps freezing. I don't think these would do it, but I'm trying everything. It's driving me up the wall.

Comments

[ftmichael]

The IcedTea plugin is a web browser plugin based on OpenJDK and IcedTea to execute Java applets - it's what enables you to run Java stuff. What release of Ubuntu are you using? What browser and what version of that browser?

Definitely also look through http://ubuntuforums.org/ and post there if you don't find the info you need by searching existing posts. Search for more information about the fact that your browser is freezing, unless you have a particular reason to believe that that plugin is the culprit.

[crossbow1]

Ubuntu 10.04
Firefox 10.0

It's just that I've heard that Firefox gets bogged down with add-ons and plug-ins, and I've already tried it with and without all my add-ons. I've been looking at the forums but no luck so far.

[ftmichael]

Definitely, the next thing I was going to suggest was disabling all of your add-ons and re-enabling them one by one to see what's slowing it down. What are you typically doing when it crashes?

It might also be that Ubuntu 10.04 came with Firefox 3; maybe there are compatibility issues with 10.04 and Firefox 10. That doesn't seem terribly likely but you might find that upgrading to a more recent release of Ubuntu helps.

See http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Firefox-hangs .

[aetherspoon]

That is actually similar to how the Oracle Java plugin functions under Windows - it never removes an older version, it just installs a newer one.

So hooray for the IcedTea folks implementing Oracle's bugs?

[benanov]

Remove the plugin through the package managers - software center, synaptic, aptitude, etc.