Firefox crash

[Calvin Austin]

Florin Andrei wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:06 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:11 +0200, Julien Le Houérou wrote:
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>>>I met this issue under FC2, since upgrade to FC3 firefox does not crash 
>>>anymore, anyway I encounter problems with java applets, I just can't 
>>>type any text in text boxes, and most of time text in option lists does 
>>>not display either... is it due to j2re and mozilla-j2re versions? I 
>>>think they're 1.5.
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>>I have the exact same problem. Any solutions?
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>>firefox-1.0.3-1.3.1
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>>Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_06-b03
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>The problem persists with Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_08-b03
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>Trying out Java 1.5 has no point, since many sites are not yet
>compatible with this version. And in any case, Java 1.4 used to work
>with older Firefox 1.0.x versions.
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>I will file a bugzilla report and start a new thread on this mailing
>list immediately, subject "Firefox and Java bug".
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The 5.0/1.5 plugin is compatible, viz it does accept earlier class 
files, its the other way that isn't compatible. ie someone building a 
5.0 applet cannot be run on a 1.4 browser in most cases

regards
calvin