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This is a high-importance bug since any applet embedded in a web page
can cause Firefox to spin the CPU at 100% until the entire Firefox
process is killed.

The user has no control over the launching of a Java applet nor warning
that a page contains one.

Now that firefox-3.5 takes over the /usr/bin/firefox symbolic link this
becomes more invasive since any desktop shortcuts or links embedded in
application configurations that expect to launch a working firefox-3.0
will launch firefox-3.5 instead.

** Changed in: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Jaunty icedtea6-plugin doesn’t work in Firefox 3.5
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359407
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Status in “firefox-3.5” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
On Jaunty amd64 with icedtea6-plugin 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu6, Java applets work in Firefox 3.0, but not in Firefox 3.5.  The following messages show up on the console:

$ firefox-3.5
../IcedTeaPlugin.cc:3852: Error: create process
../IcedTeaPlugin.cc:1662: Error: started appletviewer

(firefox-3.5:13746): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_io_channel_write_chars: assertion `channel != NULL' failed
../IcedTeaPlugin.cc:4061: Error: Failed to write bytes to output channel

(firefox-3.5:13746): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_io_channel_flush: assertion `channel != NULL' failed
../IcedTeaPlugin.cc:4075: Error: Failed to flush bytes to output channel

(firefox-3.5:13746): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_io_channel_write_chars: assertion `channel != NULL' failed
../IcedTeaPlugin.cc:4061: Error: Failed to write bytes to output channel

(firefox-3.5:13746): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_io_channel_flush: assertion `channel != NULL' failed
../IcedTeaPlugin.cc:4075: Error: Failed to flush bytes to output channel