1234695 - Java plugin crashing with thread interruption errors

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[schaefro]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20151027170520

Steps to reproduce:

Our applet code has not changed for many years. We run in both Firefox and IE. The problems started in Firefix v42, we still run fine in firefox v41. 


Actual results:

Random Thread Interrupt problems. Happens quite regularly when we try to call JSObject.getWindow in the applet. 

java.lang.InterruptedException
	at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:201)
	at sun.plugin2.message.Queue.waitForMessage(Unknown Source)
	at sun.plugin2.message.Pipe$2.run(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.util.Waiter$1.wait(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.util.Waiter.runAndWait(Unknown Source)
	at sun.plugin2.message.Pipe.receive(Unknown Source)
	at sun.plugin2.main.server.HeartbeatThread.run(Unknown Source)
java.lang.InterruptedException


Expected results:

We should have been able to call JSObject.getWindow without an interruption. Again, this same exact code runs in Firefox 41.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

We forced Java to run out of the Firefox process in FF42, and the Java plugin had threading issues. We've removed Java support entirely starting in Firefox 52, so I'm going to close this out.