Bug 156319
| Summary: | text boxes in Java applets don't work with new Firefox | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Florin Andrei <florin> |
| Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Christopher Aillon <caillon> |
| Status: | CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | clay, mattdm, mcepl, mcepl, wtogami |
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| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2007-02-15 11:53:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Florin Andrei
2005-04-28 21:17:42 UTC
Discussion on fedora-list, subject "Firefox and Java bug": https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-April/thread.html#05532 And here's an example of non-working applet: http://www.terrafly.com/ Pretty damn cool website, such a pity it's hit by this bug. I've other examples, totally unrelated sites, but they're work-related so i can't post URLs. :-) Per suggestion by Calvin Austin on fedora-list, i thought that perhaps Firefox does not let the applet get the focus. However, that's not true. There's a site (sorry, can't post URL) where the applet comes up with one of the text fields having two weird characters - they look like little dotted squares. I can delete those characters using Backspace, so the applet does get the focus. It's just that i can't type in my own text. I believe, but i may be wrong, that that text field that i mentioned used to come up with a five-digit user ID pre-filled in. Instead, now there are just those characters. Might be related to bug #156276 (try changing to LANG env var as suggested there and reporting on the results) answer to comment #4 Yes, it did fix it. While launching firefox, i got these messages: $ firefox perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). I agree that this is the same bug as 156276. As indicated in comment #5, LANG=C fixed it for us too. Until there is a patch, we are setting LANG=UTF-8 just before invoking java, but not changing it from LANG=en_US.UTF-8 for the entire system. Alright, this is not just about Java applets running in Firefox, it's about any Java application. I tested Visual Route for Linux as a standalone Java app, and i get the unreadable characters unless i do a "export LANG=C" before launching VR. http://download.visualware.com/networkmonitoring/index.html We cannot set LANG=C by default in order to workaround a java bug. Answer to comment #8 Warren, i did not imply that you should set LANG=C. That is just a workaround that seems to fix the problem until a proper solution is found. And i don't believe it's a Java bug either. The system was working properly until some Fedora update, after which many Java applets and applications stopped functioning properly. Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you! I don't have access to the particular Java Web application where I noticed the issue for the first time (it was a fairly big and complex application) and nowadays I'm not using any other Web apps at that level of complexity. Cannot do tests anymore for this bug. |