144549 - Yahoo! Chat Java applet won't run on Mac OS X

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 143584

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Chris Gervais]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0rc2)
Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    2002051005

Yahoo!'s Chat Java applet won't run at all on my Mozilla 1.0RC2 build on Mac OS
X 10.1.4 w/MRJPluginCarbon-1.0fc2. When a chat room is selected, the browser
loads the VM, then loads the applet, then completely hangs before any part of
the applet has drawn.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure you have a Yahoo! ID
2. Go to <http://chat.yahoo.com>
3. Select "Computers & Internet > Macintosh"

Actual Results:  The browser loads the HTML page with the applet, loads the VM
and the applet (according to the window's status bar) and then completely hangs
the browser before any of the applet's content has drawn. All that's displayed
is "Loading Applet" in one of the lower HTML frames.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have loaded and executed the applet; failing
that, there should be some feedback as to why it can't load.

I've selected Tools > Web Development > Java Console to see if there's any
output preceeding the crash, but there's none to be found. There's nothing
reported in Mac OS X's standard Console output either. I've got all the
latest-and-greatest OS X updates.

Comment 1

[Chris Gervais]

OK, now for something totally kooky. I quickly look up Apple's TechNote on GDB
for beginners <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2032.html#launchingcfm>
and launch Mozilla as described in that note. If I launch Mozilla via this
method, I have no problems at all with the Yahoo! Chat applet. What the fsck? Is
GDB that magical?!

Comment 2

[Peter Lubczynski]

-->bnesse

I think this is a dup, but funny it works under GDB.

Comment 3

[Chris Gervais]

I saw a similar bug <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143584>, but it
was on the PC platform and didn't see anything filed against Mac OS X. I figured
better safe than sorry (I'm used to the Apple stance of file a bug even if you
think it's a dupe). I did notice that when I got into the chat room afte
launching Moz thru GDB that it reported my hostname and IP as
"localhost/127.0.0.1". Maybe there's something screwy with the way hostname and
IP are reported through OJI and it's causing some hang or infinite lookup loop?
Would GDB affect an application in this way?

Comment 4

[Joe Chou]

Mark this dup of 143584.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143584 ***