---
name: "icedtea-web-plugin"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "icedtea-web"
version: "1.8.8-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/icedtea-web-plugin"
---

# icedtea-web-plugin(1)

allow to run java applets in your favorite browser

## NAME

icedtea-web-plugin - allow to run  **java applets** in your favorite  **browser**

## SYNOPSIS

**icedtea-web-plugin** is working in your browser, once your browser knows about this files.\

The IcedTeaPlugin.so must be placed, or linked inside specific directories. See http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Plugin\

**Mozilla compatible browsers** like Firefox, Midori, Epiphany, Chrome or Chromium use:\

- $HOME/.mozilla/plugins

  Location of plugin library for user's purposes on Mozilla compliant browser.

- /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

  Location of plugin library for global purposes  on Mozilla compliant browser, 64-bit systems.

- /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

  Location of plugin library for global purposes  on Mozilla compliant browser, 32-bit systems.

**Opera family browsers** like Opera use:\

- /usr/lib64/opera/plugins

  Location of plugin library for global purposes  on opera compliant browser, 64-bit systems.

- /usr/lib/opera/plugins

  Location of plugin library for global purposes  on opera compliant browser, 32-bit systems.

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## FILES

- $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so

  Location of plugin library for user's purposes on Mozilla compliant browser.

- $XDG\_CACHE\_HOME/icedtea-web/cache/recently\_used

  Additional information about items in cache

- $XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/icedtea-web/generated\_jnlps

  Location where jnlp files generated from html pages for javaws applications desktop/menu launchers icons are stored

- $XDG\_RUNTIME\_DIR/tmp/icedteaplugin-user-\*

  Contains in and out pipe for native2java communication and (if enabled) debugging pipe.

- /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so

  Location of plugin library for global purposes  on Mozilla compliant browser, 32-bit systems.

- /usr/lib/opera/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so

  Location of plugin library for global purposes  on opera compliant browser, 32-bit systems.

- /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so

  Location of plugin library for global purposes  on Mozilla compliant browser, 64-bit systems.

- /usr/lib64/opera/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so

  Location of plugin library for global purposes  on opera compliant browser, 64-bit systems.

Where $XDG\_CONFIG\_DIR, $XDG\_CACHE\_DIR and $XDG\_RUNTIME\_DIR are  set  as ~/.config, ~/.cache and /tmp or /var/tmp if not set.

## BUGS

There aren't any known bugs. If you come across one, please file it at:\
 http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Filing\_bugs\
 http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla\

Please run in debug (-verbose switch or itw-settings setting or ICEDTEAPLUGIN\_DEBUG variable set to true) mode and include that output (best is from java console) with URL to jnlp or html file (or the jnlp/html file or  application itself) when filing out the bug report.\

## AUTHOR

The following people have made contibutions to this project.\
 Please keep this list in alphabetical order.\
 Lillian Angel \<langel@redhat.com\>Andrew Azores \<aazores@redhat.com\>Deepak Bhole \<dbhole@redhat.com\>Laurent Bourgès \<bourges.laurent@gmail.com\>Adam Buchta \<adbuch7@gmail.com\>Ricardo Martín Camarero \<rickyepoderi@yahoo.es\>Marcin Cieslak \<marcin.cieslak@gmail.com\>Danesh Dadachanji \<ddadacha@redhat.com\>Adam Domurad \<adomurad@redhat.com\>Lukasz Dracz \<ldracz@redhat.com\>Thomas Fitzsimmons \<fitzsim@redhat.com\>Olesya Gerasimenko \<gammaray@basealt.ru\>Michał Górny \<mgorny@gentoo.org\>Mark Greenwood \<mark@dcs.shef.ac.uk\>Tereza Hlavackova \<hlavackova.tereza@gmail.com\>Lars Herschke \<lhersch@dssgmbh.de\>Peter Hatina \<phatina@redhat.com\>Andrew John Hughes \<ahughes@redhat.com\>Jie Kang \<jkang@redhat.com\>Alex Kashchenko \<akashche@redhat.com\>Matthias Klose \<doko@ubuntu.com\>Alexandr Kolouch \<skolnag@gmail.com\>Jan Kmetko \<jan.kmetko.ml@gmail.com\>Francis Kung \<fkung@redhat.com\>Denis Lila \<dlila@redhat.com\>DJ Lucas \<dj@lucasit.com\>Omair Majid \<omajid@redhat.com\>Jon A. Maxwell \<jmaxwell@users.sourceforge.net\>Thomas Meyer \<thomas@m3y3r.de\>Kurt Miller \<kurt@intricatesoftware.com\>Saad Mohammad \<smohammad@redhat.com\>Martin Olsson  \<martin@minimum.se\>Stefan Ring  \<stefan@complang.tuwien.ac.at\>Ville Skyttä \<ville.skytta@iki.fi\>Fridrich Strba \<fridrich.strba@suse.com\>Andrew Su \<asu@redhat.com\>Joshua Sumali \<jsumali@redhat.com\>Joel Tesdall \<jtesdall@mapcon.com\>Michal Vala \<mvala@redhat.com\>Jiri Vanek \<jvanek@redhat.com\>Tomáš Votava \<tomcacolca@gmail.com\>Mark Wielaard \<mark@klomp.org\>Jacob Wisor  \<gitne@excite.co.jp\>Man Lung Wong \<mwong@redhat.com\>\
 This project also includes code from the following projects:\
 OpenJDK \<http://openjdk.java.net/\>\
 Netx \<http://jnlp.sourceforge.net/netx/\>\

## SEE ALSO

[**icedtea-web**(1)](/icedtea-web/1.md) [**javaws**(1)](/javaws/1.md) [**icedtea-web-plugin**(1)](/icedtea-web-plugin/1.md) [**itweb-settings**(1)](/itweb-settings/1.md) [**policyeditor**(1)](/policyeditor/1.md) **policytool**(1) **java**(1)

http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web\
 http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web\