259659 - Java Plug-in error when launching

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259577

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Devin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

After installing 1.0PR over 9.3 the install goes fine, but when i launch the 
application I get a pop up window with the following: "Java Plug-in Error  
Java Plug-in for Netscape Navigator should not be used in Microsoft Internet 
Explorer. Please use java Plug-in for Micorsoft Internet Explorer instead"

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch application
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Same as stated above.  Even in Safe mode for browser

Expected Results:  
Launched the browser

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

never install over the top of a previous version !

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259577 ***

Comment 2

[Sue Clark]

(In reply to comment #1)
> never install over the top of a previous version !
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259577 ***

I too had this error, and i definitely did NOT install over the old. v0.9.2 was
totally uninstalled and removed  first. In favt, the 1.0PR worked great for
three days. Then just a little while ago tonight (19 Sept) gave the same error
as above and wouldn't open (illegal operation).