680679 - dom.ipc.plugins.java.enabled

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Wyatt Childers]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; Win64; x64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110820 Firefox/9.0a1
Build ID: 20110820030758

Steps to reproduce:

Started a Java App. RuneScape.


Actual results:

No plugin container came.


Expected results:

A plugin container should have appeared for java.

Comment 1

[Wyatt Childers]

I found: dom.ipc.plugins.java.enabled;false

which was the default setting... For example if I reset it, it will go back to false. However, when set to true it works just fine... 

It will bring down the browser in neither case. However it is extremely confusing if Java crashes as you are left with a black screen. The game that I was playing, RuneScape, sometimes lags into a black box(which is what you get if you kill java without the plugin container) so you don't know if you are experiencing lag or the game has crashed.

Also I found it strange that even after enabling dom.ipc.plugins.java.enabled killing java left you with a white screen instead of a plugin crash until you killed the container.

Comment 2

[Wyatt Childers]

Before anyone ask, Java x64 6_26

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

dom.ipc.plugins.java.enabled is by default to off because they have their own process isolation and it should work without.

Comment 4

[Wyatt Childers]

The problem isn't it doesn't work. The problem is their is no interface. No notifications, nothing. It just blacks out.