627883 - Not recognizing application/x-java-applet;version=1.6

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 630285

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Gnonthgol]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b9

When I enter a web site that is jusing a java plugin with type="application/x-java-applet;version=1.6" firefox prompts me to install java.

about:plugins reports that the java plugin handles boath application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.6.0_22 and application/x-java-applet;version=1.5

This is not a problem with safari or firefox 3.5 whitch have the entry for application/x-java-applet;version=1.6 in about:plugins

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a html page including <EMBED type="application/x-java-applet;version=1.6" ...> </EMBED>
2. Browse to that html page
3.
Actual Results:  
Firefox complains off missing plugin for java

Expected Results:  
Starts the java plugin

Comment 1

[Al S.]

I am experiencing similar problem with SeaMonkey 2.0.11.  Have updated Java to Version 6 Update 23 (build 1.6.0_23-b05), SeaMonkey won't work on page requiring Java (says to install Java, which is already listed in plug-ins, and is active).  Same page works fine in MS IE 8.0 and Google Chrome.

Comment 3

[Al S.]

The problem I described in my comment above was resolved when I uninstalled Java, carefully hunted for and deleted old versions of the Java plug in from past installs, and reinstalled the current Java.  Then pages with Java on them loaded fine, so my problem was not a bug.  Sorry to muddy the waters.