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kaloyer

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From: Tucson, AZ, USA

Registered: 2004-06-15

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Java, Firefox, and THE APPLET

Ok, well, I'm running a fresh install of Arch with Firefox and Java. However, when I visit a site with an applet, it freezes after around 5 minutes. I then have to physically reboot to get back in. Here are some of the package and system specs:

Packages
Xorg 6.8.1
Firefox .10
Java 1.5

Hardware
Pentium 2 450 MHz
384 MB RAM

Please help me, I really want to use some of the new Java stuff.
:cry:

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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

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Re: Java, Firefox, and THE APPLET

However, when I visit a site with an applet, it freezes after around 5 minutes.

Does this mean the applet works for about 5 minutes and then freezes, or that it takes about 5 minutes for the applet to load, and once loaded it freezes?

Does it happen with all applets, or just some sites in particular?

Dusty

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kaloyer

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From: Tucson, AZ, USA

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Re: Java, Firefox, and THE APPLET

It works for 5 minutes, and then it freezes. This affects all applets.

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kaloyer

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From: Tucson, AZ, USA

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Re: Java, Firefox, and THE APPLET

UPDATE: This is also a problem for flash

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Dusty

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Re: Java, Firefox, and THE APPLET

Sounds like a firefox plugin problem then; did you happen to have this trouble with firefox 0.9?

If you run firefox from a terminal, does it give any output when it crashes?

Dusty

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kaloyer

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Re: Java, Firefox, and THE APPLET

Well, since it crashes the whole computer, I ran mozilla-firefox >> firelog and found no error output when it crashed. Very interesting...

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Dusty

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Re: Java, Firefox, and THE APPLET

ah, forgot about the crashing. The command you entered won't save standard error input though, and if the computer is crashing, it *may* not close(save) the file anyway.

try

mozilla-firefox 2>&1 >>firefox-errors

Also, is it really freezing up the X-server completely?  ctrl-alt-BackSpace doesn't recover it and ctrl-alt-F1 doesn't take you to a console??

Dusty

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kaloyer

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From: Tucson, AZ, USA

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Re: Java, Firefox, and THE APPLET

nope, nothing. and yes, it freezes the entire comp. no ctrl-alt-backspace or anything, it just stops. then i reboot. 

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LavaPunk

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Registered: 2004-03-05

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Re: Java, Firefox, and THE APPLET

Start it in a terminal and log everything to a file?

Edit: perhaps I should read posts more than one above me... read this earlier today but skipped Dusty's responce.  Sorry about that.