542970 - Firefox 3.6 will black a little time when starting to run Java applet

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Web Painting, defect)

Description

[lilin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5

Firefox 3.6 will black a little time when starting to run Java applet 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open firefox 3.6
2.in URL input IP which is running Java applet
3.firefox 3.6 screen will black a little time after click Enter
Actual Results:  
Firefox 3.6 will black a little time

Expected Results:  
Firefox 3.6 will not black a little time

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Confirmed with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.1pre) Gecko/20100124 Namoroka/3.6.1pre

It does not happen with dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to true in Minefield however.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

dupe of bug 526220?

Comment 3

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> dupe of bug 526220?

A shows black then works does not seem to me to be dupe of stays black forever and does not run at all.

Comment 4

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

This is a regression caused by the check-in for bug 473398 and/or the subsequent bugfix checkins it produced.  I never reported a bug at the time, but probably should have.  The color black here makes no sense.  It should probably either be displaying a transparent background or the default browser background color and not black.

Comment 6

[Zack Weinberg (:zwol)]

I hate to say it, but there is precisely nothing I can do with this bug unless someone can produce a test case using Flash, or better, the test plugin.  I have spent DAYS trying to get the Java plugin to work for me AT ALL, and I have never had the slightest bit of success.

Comment 7

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Is this Windows-only or does it also happen on other platforms?

Comment 8

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Is this Windows-only or does it also happen on other platforms?

The black color seems to be windows only.

Under Linux, it seems to be gray similar to the chrome background color.  I would have expected it to be white in this case, which is the content area background color.

Comment 9

[Walter Lütgenau]

This issue is most important for me. My application is using applets intensively and the initial black rectangle is very annoying. Even if it shows up only a fraction of a second it makes using firefox for the application near to impossible. Is there anything I can do to speed up fixing it? 

Zack Weinberg asked for the applet itself, while other commentors seem to be able to reproduce the issue and even to track it down to bug 473398. 

So my question is: Would it be of help, if I provide an applet class or jar in conjunction with an HTML page using the applet or would that be counter productive, since everyone is able to reproduce the issue and I add confusion?

Comment 10

[Colin Bootle]

Bug appears fixed in Firefox 4 (Windows)

Comment 11

[Timothy Nikkel (:tnikkel)]

If it's still a problem in 3.6 there is probably nothing we can do, that branch is on life support and is only get security fixes. If this bug is fixed in 4 (and assuming above), then it is fixed. If there is still a problem please reopen.