Firefox 18 Issues with Java

agroschim · 2013-01-30 09:18:42

Hi.

After updating Firefox seemed starting crashing at random occasions even in safe-mode. After a while I figured out it crashes only when opening sites using Java. This problem has been reported by other users but not under Archlinux as far as I know. Aside from this I am rather helpless. Any ideas?

omeringen · 2013-01-30 09:31:16

Any steps to reproduce ?

illusionist · 2013-01-30 09:34:11

If that problem is not related to archlinux then it will definitely be firefox. IMHO you may give another browser a try. Also as an alternative try NoScript addon and play with it a little. I don't know if that will work or not, It is the only solution came into my mind.

agroschim · 2013-01-31 00:27:37

omeringen wrote:

Any steps to reproduce ?

Open an empty tab or open Facebook.

illusionist wrote:

If that problem is not related to archlinux then it will definitely be firefox. IMHO you may give another browser a try. Also as an alternative try NoScript addon and play with it a little. I don't know if that will work or not, It is the only solution came into my mind.

As for other browsers I tried Midori which also crashes. I use NoScript.

the sad clown · 2013-01-31 01:21:25

Try opening Firefox in a terminal to see if any error messages are printed out.

agroschim · 2013-01-31 01:35:15

 2771 segmentation fault (core dumped)

Any chance to get more information from Firefox?

anonymous_user · 2013-01-31 01:46:17

Which java are you using? Maybe try using jre from the AUR.

the sad clown · 2013-01-31 02:24:18

Are you running i686 or x86_64?

the sad clown · 2013-01-31 02:25:16

anonymous_user wrote:

Which java are you using? Maybe try using jre from the AUR.

I think he meant JavaScript. Does Facebook even use Java plugins?

Last edited by the sad clown (2013-01-31 02:25:25)

the sad clown · 2013-01-31 02:35:42

Here is a similar problem (OpenBSD)

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=135885624504662&w=2

nomorewindows · 2013-01-31 14:19:29

You might try downloading the official java from java.com, and unpacking into /opt, and then symlink the /jre<xxxx>/lib/<arch>/libnpjp2.so into the ~/.mozilla/plugins.

ish · 2013-02-01 05:49:08

You could try the following:

pacman -S jre7-openjdk icedtea-web

agroschim · 2013-02-02 04:44:28

I am still lost.

So far I tried downgrading Java and Firefox but this didn't work either. At least someone seems to have solved this problem:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1225328

Edit: I should mention that this bug seems to affect Thunderbird as well.

Last edited by agroschim (2013-02-02 04:47:15)

nomorewindows · 2013-02-02 14:07:42

nomorewindows wrote:

You might try downloading the official java from java.com, and unpacking into /opt, and then symlink the /jre<xxxx>/lib/<arch>/libnpjp2.so into the ~/.mozilla/plugins.

ish wrote:

You could try the following:
pacman -S jre7-openjdk icedtea-web

Icedtea-web won't work with the above suggestion. jre7-openjdk can still remain however.

nomorewindows · 2013-02-05 17:12:46

We are now upto 7u13.

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