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Bug 485386

Summary:	Seamonkey is incompatible with the SUN Java plugin
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Radek Bíba <rbiba>
Component:	seamonkey	Assignee:	Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	4.7	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, stransky
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Bug Depends On:	460417
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Description Radek Bíba 2009-02-13 08:26:22 UTC

Description of problem:
SSIA.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
seamonkey-1.0.9-35.el4.x86_64
java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.12-1jpp.3.el4.x86_64
java-1.6.0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.12-1jpp.3.el4.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make sure the packages above are installed
2. launch seamonkey
3. visit a page with a java applet, e.g.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~harrison/Java/sorting-demo.html
  
Actual results:
Segmentation fault

Expected results:
Running java applet, or at least a decent error message.

Additional info:
This is a new problem, the 64bit SUN plugin didn't exist earlier. In fact, we haven't released it yet. But it works great with firefox, even out-of-the-box with the RPM above. It's just seamonkey that accepts it as a valid plugin (see about:plugins), but crashes when it attempts to use it.

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2009-02-13 16:26:25 UTC

Seamonkey 1.0.x and 1.1.x fails to exchange NPAPI callback table with the java plugin...2.0a works fine. Looks like some misconfiguration...

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2009-02-16 14:37:52 UTC

the 64-bit plugin ignores all old mozilla browsers (1.8.0 and 1.8.1), returns NPERR_INCOMPATIBLE_VERSION_ERROR from NP_Initialize().

We can cosider to hack the plugin interface or at least fix crash of the old seamonkey.

Comment 4 Martin Stransky 2010-03-09 14:20:14 UTC

It will be fixed when Bug 460417 lands.

Comment 5 Radek Bíba 2010-07-26 08:15:37 UTC

Update:

java-1.6.0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.21-1jpp.1.el4 + seamonkey-1.0.9-61.el4 = no crash. Yay! Applets still don't work, but I guess that won't get better until Seamonkey is rebased. There's one thing that could be improved in the meantime, though: when a page with an applet is visited, a dialog pops up asking me if I want to download the appropriate plug-in for application/x-java-vm. When I click OK, seamonkey goes to http://www.propeller.com/plugins/jvm.html, which gives 404: Page not Found. That's not helpful.

FTR, we've just switched to libnpjp.so also in case of the 32-bit Sun java plugin.

Comment 6 Martin Stransky 2011-10-20 12:32:34 UTC

We're not going to fix in in seamonkey on RHEL4.