90397 - Yahoo Games Java-based never load

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[stuart Wiliams]

they never load even after loading the plugin. they try to load, but never open.

Comment 1

[Francisco León]

WFM 200101904

Comment 2

[Igor Kushnirskiy]

moving to oji

Comment 3

[Igor Kushnirskiy]

reassigning to Ed

Comment 4

[brian]

ver 0.9.2, win98se

experiencing this bug. i cant tell wheather this is a sun or moz problem.
any pages containing java apps just wont load the java VM

this happpend when i was upgrading to the lastest JRE2 1.3.1. my previous
version was the 1.3.0_1i which worked fine.

Comment 5

[edburns]

I was just playing checkers using JDK1.3.1 and 18 July 2001 trunk.

I got booted by fooligan.

Comment 6

[Jonadab the Unsightly One (Nathan Eady)]

I can reproduce this on Windows 95 OSR2.  

Reproducable:  
    Seems to be very near 100% on systems where it
    happens at all, but does not happen on every 
    system.  I have thus far been unable to isolate
    anything that can be done on a system where it
    does not reproduce to make it reproduce. 

Steps to reproduce:

1.  Download and install Mozilla 0.9.6 or
    the latest nightly build.  Exit Mozilla,
    including QuickLaunch.

2.  Go to java.sun.com and download and 
    install the Java plugin.  Open Mozilla and
    check the About Plugins to verify that the
    Java plugin was installed for Mozilla (about 
    data included below).

3.  Go to games.yahoo.com, log in, and
    select any game.  I specifically tried
    Dots and Pool, but I believe it is the
    same for any of them.

4.  Click one of the #stayhere links to
    select a room.

Expected Results:  
    Applet should load.

Actual Results:
    A new window will open, which will say "Wait 3 minutes 
    for applet to load.  If applet fails to load, click 
    here".  Below that, "Click here to get the plugin".
    If you wait three minutes, and if you click "if applet 
    fails to load click here", nothing additional happens.

Other websites may be impacted also.  For example, the 
superfluous, annoying, ubiquitous fphover applet (found, 
for example, at www.ogs.org) does not load for me either.

About Plug-ins says this:
Installed plug-ins
Find more information about browser plug-ins at Netscape.com.

Java Plug-in

    File name: D:\APPS\MOZILLA096\plugins\NPJava32.dll
Java Plug-in 1.3.1_01 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

Mime Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.2 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.2 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.1 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.1 JavaBeans Yes

Java Plug-in

    File name: D:\APPS\MOZILLA096\plugins\NPJava131_01.dll
Java Plug-in 1.3.1_01 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

Mime Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.3.1_01 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;jpi-version=1.3.1_01 JavaBeans Yes

Java Plug-in

    File name: D:\APPS\MOZILLA096\plugins\NPJava12.dll
Java Plug-in 1.3.1_01 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

Mime Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.3 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.3 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.2 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.2 JavaBeans Yes

Java Plug-in

    File name: D:\APPS\MOZILLA096\plugins\NPJava11.dll
Java Plug-in 1.3.1_01 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

Mime Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.1 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.1 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean JavaBeans Yes

Mozilla Default Plug-in

    File name: D:\APPS\MOZILLA096\plugins\npnul32.dll
Default Plug-in

Mime Type Description Suffixes Enabled
* Mozilla Default Plug-in (*.*) * Yes

This is not something I terribly care much about for _me_ 
(IMO Java is basically a bad idea in the first place that 
happens to have been made popular by earlier browser versions), 
but I'm getting a lot of complaints from end users.  

Additional Notes:

This used to work for me.  I don't know when it stopped
working, because I don't use Java very often.  I do know
that using an earlier Mozilla version, in which it used
to work, does not solve the problem.  I also am fairly
sure that I had not upgraded my JRE between the time it
last worked and the time it stopped working, unless maybe
installing an upgrade to the commercial Netscape build
did so for me.  This would lead me to believe that the
problem is at Yahoo, but then I discovered that other
applets, e.g. the fphover one (which has surely not 
changed) also don't work.