270431 - firefox crashes and will not start when linking in libjavaplugin_oji.so to plugin directory

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 237950

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Paul Root]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0

On Solaris 8 or 9 with the contributed Firefox build. Installed latest j2se,
version 1.4.2_06. Firefox will crash on startup with this error:

INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version > 5! Version = 4

System error?:: No such file or directory


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.cd <firefox>/plugin
2.ln -s <java location>/jre/plugin/sparc/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
3.firefox

Actual Results:  
error message:
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version > 5! Version = 4

System error?:: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
allow java applets to run

Comment 1

[timeless]

kill the link, load about:config, fix your useragent not to be forged. restore
the link.

Comment 2

[Paul Root]

This worked, after decyphering the the cryptic message. 
In Unix, kill means something completely different from remove. 

This still needs to be fixed. The User agent that is being used to spoof 
bad websites needs to work regardless of what plugins are installed. 

Comment 3

[Robin Monks]

I'm duping against the very similar bug 237950.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 237950 ***