If you, a customer, or someone you know uses Firefox, you or they probably had to stop at some point over the past week and install it's 2.0.0.8 update. So you may want to know about this, from Percy Cabello at Mozillalinks.org:
Firefox users who updated to the latest Firefox 2.0.0.8 version released last week may find that the Java plugin doesn't work. Apparently one of the dozens of bugs fixes uncovered a Java plugin misbehavior that prevents it from starting properly and crashing the browser. A bug has already been filed on Sun's bug tracking system.
Firefox users who updated to the latest Firefox 2.0.0.8 version released last week may find that the Java plugin doesn't work. Apparently one of the dozens of bugs fixes uncovered a Java plugin misbehavior that prevents it from starting properly and crashing the browser. A bug has already been filed on Sun's bug tracking system.
The post also includes some "work around" information. Other problems with the update have also emerged, such as "Flash-related crashes in Mac OS X," according to Mozillalinks. Mozilla has been in the middle of several mini-storms over the past few weeks. The company has launched an aggressive mobile strategy, lost some of its top developers and, last week, one of Mozilla's directors, Chris Blizzard, said he was leaving his job at Red Hat to go to work for the organization on its "evangelism team."
News source: CRN
Never had troubles with it until this morning when it failed to validate properly (meaning I had to use IE to validate).
Never had troubles with it until this morning when it failed to validate properly (meaning I had to use IE to validate).
Im using vista along with Fx 2.0.0.8 and just tried to download a hotfix from MS site, the WGA worked fine here, maybe theres more to it?
That implies that Java starting correctly crashes the browser and if that is true, I am glad that the bug fix was made, even if it disables Java.
That aside, I have had no problems using Java in Firefox 2.0.0.8.
Firefox 2.0.0.8 plus Java 1.6.0
i have java installed but it's disabled in Firefox unless i find a site that actually needs it that i KNOW is legit then i temporarily enable it.
also... http://noscript.net/ ... is a nice little extention for that helps protect you from potential javascript security issues.... it seems solid although i would not recommend it for the average joe just cause it tends to mess with alot of sites since you generally have to manually turn on javascript on a per site basis... but it's fairly quick and painless though for those of you who want extra security as i simply click a small icon at bottom right of firefox browser and select the "allow neowin.net" (or whatever site your on) and it will allow the scripts to work as usual
x64 vista ultimate
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