Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 106979
browser closed when trying to load java applet
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:32 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031009 Description of problem: I installed Sun JRE 1.4.2 Then I added the link to point to the plugin: as root, from directory /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/plugins I entered this command... ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so . I then tried to go to my network switch (HP2424M) which runs a java applet interface... I saw the message saying Java Applet loading.... then nothing... no further page activity. I then wento chat.yahoo.com and tried logging in. When it got to the point of loading the chat applet, the browser suddenly closed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla 1.4.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to go a web page with a java aplet 2. 3. Actual Results: Java applet does not run, browser may crash Expected Results: I expect the java aplet to run and be able to use the web page. Additional info: I understand you can't actually include the jre, but once it is installed it should work...
I have the link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, and can view java applets successfully, so maybe it is something you have done wrong (my mozilla is 1.4.1-7).
Well, oddly enough, I tried going to my switch (http://switch address) again.... there was a long delay which made me think it wasn't working.... and then Poof! it started up... The only thing I can think of is that I did not properly shutdown/restart Mozilla after I defined the link. (Maybe another window was still open, but minimized, I THOUGHT I did... and since then and now I've rebooted the machine too... So, the good news ... it's working now.... though the delay was several (5-10) seconds.... Closing/restarting the browser now... my switch page comes up very quickly... something about that first time I guess. Don Russell
OK, marking worksforme.