286864 - navigator.javaEnabled() returns false even when Java enabled in Prefs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221080

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[kynn jones]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

This is *not* a duplicate of previously reported bugs, since those are marked as
resolved and this one is very much alive.

The bug: navigator.javaEnabled() always evaluates to false, irrespective of the
setting in Edit>Preferences>Web Features.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable Java in Edit>Preferences>Web Features.
2. Type "javascript:navigator.javaEnabled()||alert("Java not enabled")" in the
location bar.

Actual Results:  
navigator.javaEnabled() evaluated to false.  (Alert saying "Java not enabled"
popped up.)

Expected Results:  
navigator.javaEnabled() should have evaluated to true.


This bug breaks many pages.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

javascript:navigator.javaEnabled() is true with Mozilla trunk and also in my
FF1.0.1 test installation on Win2k3.

Comment 2

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221080 ***

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change