Firefox 10 IcedTea crash

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It seems my original bug report has been acknowledged. Something in java crashes FF10 on someone else’s computer, too.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746895

As for probable ajax issue - it’s unrelated to java, just as running javascript and running java are two different things.

Ajax problems can be pinpointed with Firebug extension - just go to the site and poke around Firebug for ajax requests and responses in Console and compare them to ajax behavior in FF9 (first page of this thread has instructions how to roll back from FF10).

Oh, almost forgot, ever since I locked FF9 in Yast Software Manager the update applet in Xfce keeps pestering me with upgrading it, every day it flashes an update icon and throws a little popup, sometimes it lists other updates, too, but generally it offers me to upgrade locked Firefox and Firefox translations. Why doesn’t it ignore locked packages?

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On 02/23/2012 07:36 AM, Stan Ice wrote:
> update applet in Xfce … Why doesn’t it ignore locked packages?

probably because the update applet in Xfce is not YaST and doesn’t
talk to YaST…

i don’t know what it is, but i disabled its counterpart in KDE and just
use YaST Online Update regularly–so, i don’t need a non-YaST-connected
thing waving to me for attention every day…

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The bug has gone upstream from Novell to IcedTea

Bug 884 – icedtea-web crashes in PluginRequestProcessor::sendMember

They are talking about the same crash on the same site as me.

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On 2012-02-14 05:36, Stan Ice wrote:
> Online Update in Yast requires too many clicks to get to, I thought
> “zypper up” would do the same thing and faster but, apparently, I was
> wrong.

Indeed. YOU is equivalent to “zypper patch”.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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I have also discovered the issue with firefox 10 and icedtea java plugin which causes firefox to crash. Happens on all distros I tried (mint, ubuntu, opensuse). My opensuse setup is 12.1, 64-bit AMD, gnome desktop.

Example URL to a java applet which will cause firefox 10 to crash:
https://countermail.com/webmail.php

My current workaround is to use firefox 9.01 instead.

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Run Firefox from the command line and paste the results.

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My results:


:~>firefox
(plugin-container:2451): GnomeShellBrowserPlugin-DEBUG: plugin loaded
** (plugin-container:2453): DEBUG: NP_Initialize
** (plugin-container:2453): DEBUG: NP_Initialize succeeded
** (plugin-container:2455): DEBUG: NP_Initialize
** (plugin-container:2455): DEBUG: NP_Initialize succeeded
*** nss-shared-helper: Shared database disabled (set NSS_USE_SHARED_DB to enable).
java version "1.6.0_24"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.1) (suse-3.1-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)
Checking applet parameters...
Applet parameters verified.
Initiating CounterMailEngine v1.3 Build: 1.3.201201041
OS: Linux 3.1.9-1.4-desktop amd64 Java: 1.6.0_24 from Sun Microsystems Inc.
Assertion failure: rt->onOwnerThread(), at /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/mozilla/js/src/jsapi.cpp:6316
:~> 
** (crashreporter:2533): WARNING **: Can not stat /tmp/orbit-h

I tried several times in a row and the re-occuring item is:

Assertion failure: rt->onOwnerThread(), at /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/mozilla/js/src/jsapi.cpp:6316
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On 02/28/2012 04:36 PM, hjultomten wrote:
>
> My current workaround is to use firefox 9.01 instead.

a bug been filed, worked by the openSUSE folks and sent upstream to
mozilla: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746895

using FF9 and avoiding problem sites are valid work-arounds…
FF11 drops 13 March…

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DD
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Try this


export NSS_USE_SHARED_DB=enabled

Let’s see what happens after you do that.

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Still crashes with that variable set. Seems I have to stick with ff 9.01 until a fix is released from either icedtea or firefox dev teams.

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The originally filed bug has been moved upstream to IcedTea side and apparently it has been resolved as a duplicate of this bug

Bug 820 – Firefox 10 and above crashes when LiveConnect is heavily used

Could anyone tell me how exactly this solution works? Do I need a specially complied IcedTea-Web 1.2pre or what? They mention Ubuntu package, do I need to build an equivalent for Suse? Currently I have version 1,1.3-1.2 installed.

Apparently upgrading FF is not going to fix it either as it is an IcedTea issue.

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This workaround worked for me, tested it in firefox 10.02

about:config

dom.ipc.plugins.java.enabled = true

Found it here:
Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 789959

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Might be interesting to follow this as well; https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626362