[21631] in Athena Bugs
Re: Linux Athena, Mozilla and x-java-vm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Mon Mar 17 19:27:39 2003
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 19:27:36 -0500
Message-Id: <200303180027.TAA14888@abulia.mit.edu>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Tom Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
CC: Athena Bugs list <bugs@MIT.EDU>, rbasch@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[21573] in Athena Bugs"
Hi -- sorry for the delay in responding, I was out for a while.
> When I try to visit a particular companiy web page "www.ethex.com" my
> browser hangs.
This starts an applet via the Java plug-in, which causes java_vm to be
started. As you suggest, this plug-in is loaded from AFS;
/mit/infoagents/arch/@sys/MIT-only/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
is a symlink to the java_v1.4.0_01 locker plug-in. The delay in loading
the software on a slow network link is probably what is causing the
apparent hang.
> How do I find out what binary Mozilla is trying to load?
>
> How do I configure Mozilla to load a local copy?
Under Help, select About Plug-ins; this will display the installed
plug-in list. (You can also open the URL about:plugins). You should
see entries for the four plug-ins we currently make available
(Shockwave Flash, Default Plugin, Java, and Realplayer); these entries
are in the mozilla/plugins directory in infoagents, as noted above.
You might try copying the java_v1.4.0_01 locker locally (I'm not sure
if you need tokens to do so successfully), or installing a local
copy of the software from java.sun.com. You could then have Mozilla
load the local copy by setting the MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH environment
variable to point at the directory containing libjavaplugin_oji.so.
Bob
