Bug 685668

Summary:	Firefox 3.6.14 introduces a regression in java handling
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Jonathan Peatfield <j.s.peatfield>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version:	5.6	CC:	dbhole, gecko-bugs-nobody
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Description Jonathan Peatfield 2011-03-15 13:51:16 UTC

Description of problem:

According to http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/pogo-and-other-java-pages-dont-work firefox 3.6.14 introduced a regression in the handling of the java plugin - resulting in some java apps no longer working.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.6.14

Additional info:

Mozilla say that the cure is to upgrade to 3.6.15 - which isn't a security update but since this is a new bug introduced in 3.6.14 those who are affected either have to stay with the old firefox or wait until the next update.

I've not yet found any pages which are affected but one of my users is saying that it is preventing him from downloading journal documents.

Comment 1 Deepak Bhole 2011-03-17 23:21:34 UTC

This is a bug in Firefox, as stated by their own developers. Furthermore, the OpenJDK plugin is not shipped in RHEL.

Switching component to Firefox.

Comment 3 Jonathan Peatfield 2011-03-18 04:57:18 UTC

Apologies if I accidentally reported this against openjdk - I'd intended to select firefox.

The particular journal pages (Physics Letters B at sciencedirect.com) that our user was having problems with do not in fact seem to be affected by this bug - or if they were then they have changed things at the server to work round it.

Comment 4 Jonathan Peatfield 2011-03-18 05:25:45 UTC

Since I forgot to include it before this is the mozilla bugzilla link:

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629030

with the explanation as to why this is a regression in 3.6.14 and the offending patch was backed out for 3.6.15 (as far as I can tell 3.6.15 just has this one fix in it).

Comment 6 Jonathan Peatfield 2011-03-23 16:55:19 UTC

This seems to have been fixed by https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0359.html which has since been superceded by the security update https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0373.html

It looks like there were already tracking bugs for this when I reported it but I was not able to view them (BZ#682251, BZ#682252, BZ#682253).

Hence this one should be closed - or marked a duplicate of whichever one of those is for the EL5 release.  I'll try to set the status to ERRATA for now.

Comment 7 Martin Stransky 2011-05-03 11:30:22 UTC

Fixed by https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0373.html