1110451 - Java plugin blocked on plugin check website

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Plugin Check Graveyard :: Client, defect, P2)

Description

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Why is the plugincheck website using Java?

Comment 1

[DJ-Leith]

I don't think that the Plugincheck Website needs Java to show results.

It does need JavaScript.

See:
Bug 1054636 "Plugin Check requires JavaScript, but does not tell the visitor about that".

For background, to the 'Plugincheck Service', see bug 956905 comment # 148 onwards.

DJ-Leith

Comment 2

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Somehow it uses Java, because when I open the site the Java plugin gets blocked.
Maybe it's used to check the Java plugin version?

Comment 3

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Attachment: Screenshot

I'm attaching a screenshot of it from a friend's computer, this morning.

Comment 4

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

She's running "Version 7, update 71.  It was updated December 10, 2014, and is the most current update."

Comment 5

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Schalk, do you know what's going on here?

Comment 6

[[:philipp]]

users on the support forum report that the plugin check page is hanging & not showing results with a blocked/old version of java:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1041556
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1043718

Comment 7

[DJ-Leith]

(in reply to philipp from comment #6)

> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1041556
This thread is very helpful, because there are screenshots.

I think that for cases where Java is set to "Ask to Activate" AKA 'click to play'
as seen here:
https://support.cdn.mozilla.net/media/uploads/images/2015-01-16-08-29-00-817c35.png

The user has to 'click to play', as seen here:
https://support.cdn.mozilla.net/media/uploads/images/2015-01-16-11-53-01-4b8cc7.png
in order to 'do a plugincheck'.

I can't test this as I have deliberately removed Java from this PC.


I wonder if the 'display the results of the plugincheck test'
are stalled if ANY of the plugins are set to "Ask to Activate"
or
if it is just the Java plugin:
(I mean the Java Runtime Environment - plugin [not the Deployment Toolkit]).


Schalk,
what do you think?

DJ-Leith

Comment 8

[DJ-Leith]

See also:
bug 1130896 "Plugin check gets stuck if Java runtime disabled
and Java Deployment toolkit enabled"

It has a link to a helpful screencast.
It might be a Duplicate of this bug.

DJ-Leith

Comment 9

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

Can someone please confirm that this has been resolved? Thanks!

Comment 10

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Thank you!