On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:02:42PM -0100, Kristian Rink wrote: > Hello everybody... > ...being not sure if this is the list for that topic... Again, being > in search for a good web browser which (thanks to the admins of some > of the sites I have to visit more or less regularly) is able of > rendering Java applets. So, Netscape 4.7 works *very* unreliable on my > potato box, uses to crash or freeze frequently when trying to get > right this done. So I got back to Mozilla which I found to be a pretty > good program, but (as for what I read on Mozilla homesite same as for > what I found out when accessing the desired site with M 0.7) it's > out-of-the-box unable to handle Java applets, as well... So following > the instructions to get this plug-in installed, I downloaded the > jre.xpi from a Netscape mirror and installed it into Mozilla... Now, > trying to start Mozilla, here's what happens:
[snip] > That's all... No Browser window, no error message, nothing, just six > or seven "java_vm" processes running on my system, taking 80 to 85 % > of my CPU load and almost 115M of shared mem, but *nothing* happens. > Killing those "java_vm" terminates Mozilla with an "INTERNAL ERROR". > So I am with a browser with enabled Java support now, but I can't use > it since it doesn't start anymore. :(( Can anyone give me a hint on > that? I'm really thankful for any helpful tip. :)) Well, I grabbed the plugin from SUN (http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/), put it in /usr/local/jre-image-i386, then made a symlink from the mozilla plugins dir to the java plugin (ns600 version). It seems to work. I usually have it turned off though. Too much bandwidth required for most "applets"... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
