[ILUG] galeon and java...

[Gary Coady]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 05:13:12PM +0000, kevin lyda wrote:
> ok, i snarfed the jre-1.3.1_01-fcs rpm from java.sun.com.  they actually
> send you a shell script which unpacks the rpm (uh...).  anyway, galeon
> now crashes when i try to use it.  after the install i linked it like so:
> 
>     ln -s /usr/java/jre1.3.1_01 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/java2
> 
> and doing about:plugins on galeon shows that it's recognised.  however
> viewing a page with an applet (i was looking at the world series play
> by play applet on cnn.com) it segfaulted immediately and died.
> 
> any idears?

I reported a bug (a dup unfortunately) where the browser would die if you
went to 'about:plugins' before any Java-enabled sites and then went to a
Java-enabled site. It was something to do with the plugin manager seeing
that Java hadn't been running, starting it to get the Java settings, but
not *really* starting it, just sort of, so's it'd crash in use afterwards.

Fixed in recent versions, but I'm not sure what you're running, you tried
using it WITHOUT going to 'about:plugins'?

Gary.

-- 
You are your own light, through the darkness.