333009 - sites with lots of java cause firefox to dump entirely on intel mac

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 325084

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Wolfgang Rumpf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (M acintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

I use a lot of sites with java/javascript and firefox can't go there right now on my Intel dual-core Macbook Pro.  Firefox on PowerPC works great (best option) but performance is not the same on the Intel OS X systems.

The URL listed above actually works but logging in to the site causes firefox to dump.  Try to log in using the guest settings they describe on the page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2. Go to http://nighthawk.umuc.edu
3. Login

Actual Results:  
Firefox dies

Expected Results:  
Firefox loads page

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Are you talking about a crash (program quits), hang (stops replying), or just generally slow performance?

Comment 2

[Mark Mentovai]

Please download Firefox 1.5.0.2.

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

It's a universal binary and will run natively on your MacBook Pro.  1.5.0.1, which you are currently using, was built for PowerPC only and runs under Rosetta.

Comment 3

[Mark Mentovai]

Firefox 1.5.0.2 was released on April 13, 2006 and is recommended for all users.  Release notes: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.2.html .

Java does not work under Rosetta.  In 1.5.0.1 and earlier, attempting to use Java while running under Rosetta could result in a crash.  This was bug 325084.  In 1.5.0.2, this has been fixed so that while Java will still not function under Rosetta, there should be no crashes.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 325084 ***