[plug] j2re1.4.1_01, Mozilla/phoenix and Debian Woody

[ryan at is.as.geeky.as]

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 15:28, Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all
> 
> I have a frustrating problem with the latest java runtime environment on 
> Debian Woody.
> I installed the j2re in /usr/local/j2reblahblah..
> I made the link in ~/mozilla/plugins as per the doc.
> The test program and page in the /usr/local/j2re dir runs fine when I 
> look it up in mozilla, but
> a page like www.seme.com.au which has a java menu selector (Which sucks 
> btw) or the line
> chart on my ADSL modem will not run and halt with errors in the jvm, but 
> then something
> like http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=1 works every time.
> 

That seme one doesn't work for me either, the dslreports one does, I'm
using 1.4.1 also on Mozilla 1.2.1, 1.3a and 1.3b.  j2re 1.3.x crashed
mozilla due to some bad glibc calls or something - so I only JUST got
java running mozilla with 1.4.1

> This worked with the old 1.3 jre and I'm at a dead loss as to what is 
> going on or what I
> can do to diagnose the problem.

They stuffed up 1.3 - nothing says they didn't stuff up 1.4 too.

Many places recommend not using the sun j2re plugins when i was looking
around for the 1.3 problems, but I haven't read what else to use in
their place :)  Kaffe might have some browser plugins by now - don't
know - I only use it for my digital camera with jphoto.

Ryan