84590 - Browser does not detect that Java 1.3 is installed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84463

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[spmacct]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607
BuildID:    2001060703

In trying to use java applets, I found I needed to install the Java plugin.  I
clicked on the hole where the applet should have been, which led me to download
and install the Java 1.3.0_01 plugin.  It downloaded successfully, and installed
fine.  I can even double-click the icon in the control panel, everything checks
out fine.  The browser even reports a successful download and install (even
before the download finishes).  After the full install, clicking on the applet
asks me to (again) download the plugin.  Closing the browser and re-opening it
states that the browser needs to close due to an install that's happening, and
to reboot.  I reboot, and alas, still no Java.  The same blank hole, the same
click, the same request to download the Java plugin.  I even tried uninstalling
Java and reinstalling it, and installing to a custom directory as opposed to the
default directory.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start with a Win98 box with no Java plugin.
2. Click on a java applet, follow the instructions to install the plugin.
3. Try clicking on the java applet after the install.
4. Also try closing the browser and re-opening it.
5. Also try rebooting.

Actual Results:  No java support nomatter what.

Expected Results:  Java should load the applet I'm clicking on on the webpage.

It's not just the demicron webpage, it's all webpages with a java applet on it.
 I'm using Win98SE.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

i believe the java setting under preferences/advanced have java disabled by
default. Do you have it enabled there? Also see comments in bug 84463

Comment 2

[Igor Kushnirskiy]

moving to oji

Comment 3

[edburns]

Reassign to Xiaobin.

Comment 4

[Xiaobin Lu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84463 ***