501453 - Firefox 3.5 does not work with IBM Host On-Demand

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 484744

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[peter.owens]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Firefox has been working quite nicely with IBM Host-On Demand until 3.5.  I have included the Java console.

Reproducible: Always




Java Plug-in 1.6.0_07
Using JRE version 1.6.0_07 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
User home directory = C:\Documents and Settings\owenspw


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c:   clear console window
f:   finalize objects on finalization queue
g:   garbage collect
h:   display this help message
l:   dump classloader list
m:   print memory usage
o:   trigger logging
p:   reload proxy configuration
q:   hide console
r:   reload policy configuration
s:   dump system and deployment properties
t:   dump thread list
v:   dump thread stack
x:   clear classloader cache
0-5: set trace level to <n>
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netscape.javascript.JSException
	at netscape.javascript.JSObject.getWindow(Unknown Source)
	at com.ibm.eNetwork.HOD.cached.appletsupport.CachedSupportBaseApplet.confirm(Unknown Source)
	at com.ibm.eNetwork.HOD.cached.appletsupport.CachedSupportBaseApplet.checkVersions(Unknown Source)
	at com.ibm.eNetwork.HOD.cached.appletsupport.CachedAppletSupportApplet.init(Unknown Source)
	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
netscape.javascript.JSException
	at netscape.javascript.JSObject.getWindow(Unknown Source)
	at com.ibm.eNetwork.HOD.cached.appletsupport.CachedSupportBaseApplet.alert(Unknown Source)
	at com.ibm.eNetwork.HOD.cached.appletsupport.CachedSupportBaseApplet.checkVersions(Unknown Source)
	at com.ibm.eNetwork.HOD.cached.appletsupport.CachedAppletSupportApplet.init(Unknown Source)
	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Comment 2

[u88484]

From dupe bug since not a lot of information on what exactly happens was in the report here:

"I use a program package from IBM called Host On Demand that provides terminal
emulation to connect to clients on other systems. This is a Java based package
that is launched from Firefox. It has worked in all previous releases to 3.5
but when I launch the local URL it does not complete the screen. Then in a few
seconds Firefox 3.5 terminates. This is my most critical use of Firefox and I
have no idea what information to send to you. If there is some kind of trace,
etc. you wish provide instructions and I will send more info."

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Your Java installation is too old, please upgrade to JRE 1.6 U13 or later (you have U07) because U13 contains the new java plugin from Sun.

Comment 4

[Mario]

So does this mean the default Java that comes with OpenSuse 11.1 is no good for Firefox 3.5? 

java full version "1.6.0_0-b14" which yast says is 1.4_b14-24.5.2

Should I remove and install the sun version? (yast says it's 1.6.0u13.1.1.1)
Should I report to OpenSuse as a bug?

Comment 5

[Mario]

I forgot to mention the default install uses openjdk

Comment 6

[Josh Aas]

The old Java plugin should work just fine in Firefox 3.5. Firefox 3.5 does not require the new Java plugin.

Comment 7

[peter.owens]

Unable to update Java plug-in due to other software dependencies.

Comment 8

[Mario]

I removed openjdk/plugins and installed Sun java with plugins. It is now working so it looks like openjdk is not compatible with ff 3.5. I will stick with Sun java. Thanks for the information about old plugins.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.0) Gecko/20090623 SUSE/3.5.0-2.1 Firefox/3.5

java full version "1.6.0_13-b03"
yast -> 1.6.0.u13-0.1.1

Comment 9

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Josh: What's the word on this bug? Any idea what's going on here that was caused by Firefox?

Not blocking 1.9.1.1, but we'll re-consider for 1.9.1.2, likely.

Comment 10

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Josh: what - if anything - did we change between 3.0 and 3.5 that would affect Java plugins on XP? Please respond. This needs additional investigation.

Comment 11

[Josh Aas]

I don't recall everything we changed that might affect Java plugins on XP, probably a bunch of things. Seems like there is a good chance that our fix for bug 484744 fixed this though, which would mean this is fixed in 3.5.1.

Can anyone reproduce this problem with Firefox 3.5.1?

Comment 12

[peter.owens]

The problem has been fixed in Firefox 3.5.1.  HOD V10.0 is working just fine now.

Thanks, Peter