Firefox refuses to load any applets using sun jre. instead, java throws an exception. Reverting back to Firefox 1.0.3 solves that problem, I'm not sure about the versions in between though. see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-366722-highlight-.html for a detailed description Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install firefox 1.0.6 2. install sun jre 3. open a page containing an applet with firefox Actual Results: the java console shows an exception: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: GetHost.class <-- contains the applet at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:162) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClassLoader.java:123) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClassLoader.java:566) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:619) at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer.java:1879) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:548) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:299) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534) Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Invalid argument at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:305) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:171) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:158) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:452) at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:137) at sun.plugin.net.protocol.http.HttpClient.doConnect(HttpClient.java:106) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:402) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:618) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:306) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:267) at sun.plugin.net.protocol.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:41) at sun.plugin.net.protocol.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:62) at sun.plugin.net.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.createConnection(HttpURLConnection.java:101) at sun.plugin.net.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:158) at sun.plugin.net.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:393) at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:272) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(AppletClassLoader.java:263) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(AppletClassLoader.java:43) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(AppletClassLoader.java:152) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:149) ... 9 more Expected Results: It should have loaded and run the applet
I cannot comfirm this bug. I use Firefox version 1.0.6-r5 and have created a symlink to my jre as the official SUN guide suggests: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/manual_install_linux.html Regards Kim
The last version I could confirm the bug with was 1.0.6-r2, an update to 1.0.6-r5 solved the problem for me.
