[JAVA2D] How do I install the 1.6 beta as my browser plugin?

2007-10-10 Thread Ken Warner
Hi, I downloaded jre-6u5-ea-bin-b04-windows-i586-27_sep_2007.jar to try D3D acceleration. When I install it, there is no installation as browser plugin. I imagine this is intentional. Is there a way to force it to be a browser plugin? I would like to see real world performance in the

Re: [JAVA2D] How do I install the 1.6 beta as my browser plugin?

2007-10-10 Thread Dmitri Trembovetski
Hi Ken, it should have been installed. However, there were some issues with that build, see http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=31404tstart=0 Thanks, Dmitri Ken Warner wrote: Hi, I downloaded jre-6u5-ea-bin-b04-windows-i586-27_sep_2007.jar to try D3D

Re: [JAVA2D] How do I install the 1.6 beta as my browser plugin?

2007-10-10 Thread Phil Race
I downloaded jre-6u5-ea-bin-b04-windows-i586-27_sep_2007.jar SFAIK this is just a self-extracting jar file that dumps the files on disk - its not an installer. You must use one of the installer downloads - eg the .exe download -phil. Ken Warner wrote: Hi, I downloaded

Re: [JAVA2D] How do I install the 1.6 beta as my browser plugin?

2007-10-10 Thread Ken Warner
Ok, massive confusion and loss of brain cells I have installed: Java Plug-in 1.6.0_05-ea I don't have a particular need to diddle with the registry right now as outlined in the forum pointed to in Dmitri's last post. I get a pretty good boost in performance with 1.6.0_05-ea. But there