357789 - Freeze instead of showing SUN licence agreements for the first time

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[KJanowicz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Hi!

I just got a new notebook that runs XP Table-PC Edition SP2. I have installed FireFox 2.0 on it and it all works well. However if you visit a web page that needs Java (JRE nor JavaScript) firefox freezes without any notification and you need to restart it. I was wondering what happens and tried IE6. Entering the web sites the SUN licence agreements popped-up and after accepting them i was able to use the website. From now on, I can visit the pages with FireFox also - no freezing at all. IMO FireFox has problems to bring up the SUN licence agreement window and freezes because it waits for user input to a window that is not there. I am not sure how many people will face this problem, because it should only appear on new systems, nevertheless it is a barrier for new users.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. system that has nor run JRE before!
2. open site that needs java --> firefox will freeze
3. do so with IE and accept sun licence agreements
4. visit page with firefox again --> no freeze

Comment 1

[KJanowicz]

*** Bug 357835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2 and the latest Java? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

No response from reporter re: comment 2 -->INCOMPLETE.
Reporter, if you still see this problem with the latest release of Firefox 2, please reopen this bug. Thanks!