Yahoo games using Java generally works as expected but it's only a matter of time before the game windows go blank (solid gray) and become unresponsive. I'm 64 bit and this happens using both Chromium and Firefox. I'm guessing installing Sun/Oracle's latest Java might solve this issue. ...

Yahoo games using Java generally works as expected but it's only a matter of time before the game windows go blank (solid gray) and become unresponsive. I'm 64 bit and this happens using both Chromium and Firefox.

I'm guessing installing Sun/Oracle's latest Java might solve this issue. However, this is not a user-friendly task and I don't believe I'd get automatic security updates using this solution, if indeed it is a solution.

Here's what I'm using:

Kubuntu 11.10

3.0.0-16-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 27 17:44:39 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

java version "1.6.0_23"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11pre) (6b23~pre11-0ubuntu1.11.10.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b11, mixed mode)

Chromium 16.0.912.77 (Developer Build 118311 Linux) Ubuntu 11.10
Firefox 10.0.2

Any solutions?

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:23:45 GMT