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Well I have Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 64bit and at random times my computer freezed. I suspected it was a Firefox 3.05b bug so I downgraded to Firefox 2.
The problem was that there is no official 64bit Java plugin.
So I followed the instructions found here : http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux-am…java-blackdown
The link that provide to download Blackdown Java does not work so here is a list of ftp mirrors to download Blackdown Java:

North America

1. ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/
2. ftp://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/blackdown/

Australia

1. ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/

Austria

1. ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/java/

Belgium

1. ftp://ftp.easynet.be/blackdown/
2. http://ftp2.skynet.be/pub/ftp.blackdown.org/

Denmark

1. ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/java/java-linux/

Finland

1. ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/java/jdk/

France

1. ftp://ftp.oleane.net/pub/java-linux/

Germany

1. ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/
2. ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/Java/Linux/

Hungary

1. ftp://xenia.sote.hu/pub/mirrors/java.blackdown.org/

Italy

1. http://mirrors.publicshout.org/java-linux/

Netherlands

1. ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/languages/java/jdk

Romania

1. ftp://archive.logicnet.ro/mirrors/ftp.tux.org/

Spain

1. ftp://ftp.cica.es/pub/java-linux/

Switzerland

1. ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/java-linux/

United Kingdom

1. ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/java/
2. ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ft…rg/java-linux/

After that do the following

1. Download Blackdown JRE
2. Open a terminal, and change to the directory where you wish to install the JRE (eg. /usr/java)
3. Run the Blackdown JRE package executable. This will extract the JRE in the current directory.
4. Run the following command: ln -s ./j2re1.4.2/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

 

Important! It is critical that you create a symbolic link to the Java plugin rather than copying it. If you copy it, your browser will crash whenever you load a page that has a Java applet.

Taken from http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux-am…java-blackdown

It is the only solution that worked in my case even it is not the best.
I am able to play games at www.pogo.com but I cannot run the speedtest applet found here: http://speedtest.forthnet.gr
Also I didn’t want to install Firefox32 and install the 32bit plugins.
In my previous Ubuntu version (Gutsy) I had Firefox32 with the plugins but it kept randomly crashing.