Description of problem: here's the free webinar / demo site i tried to open with icedtea: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2009-06-26.0807.C.CC38C635461B724615945F6314D636.vcr i've got java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-22.b16.fc11.x86_64 java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-22.b16.fc11.x86_64 java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-22.b16.fc11.x86_64 java-1.6.0-openjdk-demo-1.6.0.0-22.b16.fc11.x86_64 I go to the site. Asks me to download a jnlp or open with icedtea. I choose open with icedtea, and nothing happens. Download jnlp and try to run on command line: [duffy@Aiko ~]$ javaws ~/Download/play.jnlp netx: No base directory (contains cache and other data) Try /tmp as a basedir: javaws -basedir /tmp ~/Download/play.jnlp Finally it works. Success! So why doesn't it work through the GUI? Why doesn't it work out-of-the-box?
browser is firefox-3.5-0.20.beta4.fc11.x86_64
Same behavior in firefox-3.5-1.fc11.x86_64.
This is a duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507870 which does contain a workaround, but it is a very annoying bug indeed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 507870 ***