When you google for Google Chrome and Java you’ll find poor souls that are driven to distraction by Chrome insisting that there is no Java 6 Update 10 or later installed.
Maybe, there are no problems on a clean virgin-like system in mint condition, just unwrapped from its packaging. That’s not mine. I’m a Java developer and all sorts of Java VMs tend to pile up. Right now, I’ll need at least two of them: Java 5 and Java 6.
After an hour of agonizing failures, I found a way to have both Java 5 and Java 6 on my PC and still be able to run Java applets within Google Chrome:
- Remove all and every bit of Java, including changes to environment variables (e.g. JAVA_HOME and PATH)
- Install Java 6 SDK+JRE (as of now it’s Update 12 – ok for Chrome)
- Install Java 5 SDK+JRE unchecking any browser applet integration checkboxes (not sure, whether this is required).
- Add any environment variables you might need (pointing to Java 6).
Now I have all three of them, Java 5, Java 6 and Chrome running Java 6 applets 🙂
It still puzzles me, I had to install Java 6 first and then Java 5. The other way around would not allow Chrome to recognize Java 6, regardless of any changes being applied to Java within Control Panel…
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