Firefox 6 crashes with (most recent) Java

[Deepak Bhole]

* Per Anton Rønning <pa-ronn at online.no> [2011-09-15 17:51]:
> The problem listed in the subject line seems to be widespread. Svereal 
> people report this problem on various discussion lists.
> As soon as Firefox tries to start a plugin, it breaks down with a 
> message "this is embarrasing" etc. I have not yet found any fix that 
> seems to work. I tried to install Firefox 5 instead of 6 to see if the 
> problem is a ver. 6 problem, but now it does not pick up the Java plugin
> (does not appear in the Tools/Add-ons list.) So it cannot be enabled.
> I have created a symlink to 
> usr/java/jre1.6.0._27/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so,
> both in /opt and (created by myself) /opt/plugins.
> Does anyone have a suggestion as to what will fix this problem?
> 

Are you seeing this with the OpenJDK plug-in too? I've beeing using FF6
with it for a while and have seen no crashes.

Cheers,
Deepak

> Best regards
> Per Anton Rønning
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