283507 - Java applets are not allowed to play midi-based music and cause other things to happen.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 264286

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[James Watkins]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5 Firefox 1.0

I used Internet Explorer on Service Pack 2 and Java apples work fine. However, 
I have found that Firefox does not allow Java applets to play midi-based 
music. I emailed Jagex (the owners of runescape) about the problem and they 
said they couldn't get it to work. Here's another problem I've found: Usually 
when you type something into the address bar your cursor moves to the end of 
the string (mozilla.com|). However, for some reason whenever I try to do this 
something like this will happen: (m|)(m|o)(mz|o)(mz|io) and so on. If you dont 
understand that illustration, read this: every other letter or so that you 
type, the cursor is moved one space to the left instead of moving all the way 
to the right. This doesn't always happen like that, which makes me think that 
whenever the java applet refreshes, the errors will occur. I hevn't played 
many other java-based games since then so it could just be a glitch with 
Runescape, but nonetheless it does work with IE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to runescape.com, click play game (you do not need to have an account).
2.Click high or low detail.
3.Choose any free world (or member world if you are a member)
4.After the applet and game code loads all the way, you should see a logon 
screen.

Actual Results:  
Music doesn't play when you see the logon screen. Also, when you try typing in 
ANY text box, whether it's the address bar, the search bar, or even an HTML 
based GUI <input type="text">, the text you type into it will become twisted.

Expected Results:  
Music should be playing, and the text you type into dialog boxes should be 
normal.

When I said it twists the text in ANY dialog box, I meant all dialog boxes not 
associated with the actual java applet itself.
P.S. I know a lot about programming and such, so if you need any more 
expertice, I'm here =). Thank you!

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

and bug 256763 addresses your other issue.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 264286 ***