525516 - Snow Leopard: Java 1.5 (J2SE 5.0) Crashes FF 3.5.4, Cannot Set Installed Java SE 6 Priority in FF

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 514508

(Plugins Graveyard :: Java (Java Embedding Plugin), defect)

Description

[Chere]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 Firefox/3.5.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 Firefox/3.5.4

Hi, 

I know that some other users have experienced crashing after a Snow Leopard update, but I would like to request a feature to set the Java version that Firefox will use when running Java applets. I had to reinstall Java 1.5 (J2SE 5.0) to have support for some of my other applications after the SL update, and even if I give Java SE 6.0 priority in Java preferences in ~/Applications/Utilities, Firefox is still using Java 1.5 (likely because it's the most recent Java version installed?) I think an option in the Advanced settings (Firefox-->Preferences-->Content-->Javascript-->Advanced) is highly necessary. 

As it is, my current work around is to disable Java in FF Preferences and leave Javascript enabled in order to run the webpages I need to access, particularly WebCT, a Blackboard Application. However, I would prefer not to do this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open any webpage that tries to determine the version of Java you are running.
2. Wait for two seconds. lol. 
Actual Results:  
Firefox freezes for two full seconds before crashing. 

Expected Results:  
Let me browse the webpage.

I don't use any customization in Firefox and always keep Mac OS X, Firefox AND Java updated.

Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Java 6.0 works just fine with Firefox 3.5.4 on OS X 10.6 (or 10.6.1).

Java 1.5/J2SE 5.0 isn't available for SnowLeopard -- only Java 6.0.
So I don't know how you managed to get it installed on SnowLeopard
... or even whether you actually did so.

But if you really have managed to do this, you're probably going to
have to reinstall your entire OS from scratch to undo the damage.
This will likely have to be a clean install.

Finally, JavaScript is not Java -- the two are entirely unrelated.

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This is the same as bug 514508, where the user has also hacked Java 1.5 onto a 10.6 install.