Does this site crash you MozillaFirebird? (It kills mine...)

[DarkJedi9]

Don't click the following link until you've read the whole post.

I clicked on this (http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=13046&mode=thread&order=0) link from Penny-Arcade and it MozillaFirebird just blinked off the screen. I switched to my tty1 to see any error messages and got the following:

INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Exec of "java_vm" failed: 2
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System Error?:: No such file or directory
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not read ack from browser
System Error?:: No such file or directory

Trying to go to the main page (www.worthplaying.com) produces the same result. The article containing the link claimed it was a "Microsoft screenshot bonanza" presumably for the X-Box.

Also, wondering aloud here, isn't there some crap now with Java on Windows that requires installing something about a VM? I know that's horrendously vague; a Windows-using friend breifly mentioned it once and I wasn't paying much attention. Anyway, can anyone else replicate this or is it just me? And of course, anyone using other browsers feel free to chime in.

[Seph64]

The site itself doesn't crash my MozillaFirebird. It's strange that it would crash yours.

[nunder]

Mine seems fine
MS Windoze XP Pro SP1
Mozilla Firebird v0.6.1
(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1)

[hard candy]

From the error message, it doesn't seem you have a java vm installed or in your $PATH.

[nouse66]

that happened to me before when i had the wrong java plugin installed (ns4 version instead of ns6 or something like that)

oh yeah, and it doesnt crash my browser

[tucolino]

its fine here too... the only hting is that when i clicked on an image the page kept reloading like crazy.. thats all.

tuco

[Vortex_ICS]

it works fine with me, im using the nightly build mozilla firebird ... :D

[DarkJedi9]

Originally posted by nouse66
that happened to me before when i had the wrong java plugin installed (ns4 version instead of ns6 or something like that)

oh yeah, and it doesnt crash my browser

Seems like that might be on the right track. I'll look into it. Thanks to everyone for checking. :)

[bwkaz]

It works fine for me as well, but I don't have *any* Java plugin installed (I also don't have any Flash plugin installed, so I ended up getting *two* "download this plugin!" dialogs...).

I have gotten that message before, when I tried to use Sun's 1.4.1 JDK and plugin. Apparently it doesn't (or didn't?) work with a gcc3.2-compiled Mozilla -- I ended up having problems with the binaries finding the __divdi3() function. So they didn't start up, and I got the same "exec of java_vm failed" message.

[DarkJedi9]

Okay I tried a couple of the plugins (thought I had the right one to start off with, but ya never know...). This is the command I used for each one.
cp /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so

and

cp /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/plugin/i386/netscape7/javaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so

Both times I have a whole bunch of stuff listed in "about:plugins" about java. The very first line is application/x-java-vm Java Yes, the yes being under enabled. Any pointers?

[templest]

I didn't bother reading the other posts, but im sure what I said what already stated. It's you'r java plugin. FireBird is rather new and some plugins for mozilla (regular) don't really work well with firebird unless some manual configuring is done. I don't really know how to setup java. I don't bother (for anything that's java I just use netscape and save myself the trouble) but I did have to do some work with flash to get it up. Prolly the same thing. It seems to know you have a java installation but it doesn't seem to know where you've placed it. that's my input.

[DarkJedi9]

Well, I'm re-emerging blackdown-jdk-1.4.1 (already tried re-emerging mozilla-firebird). Hopefully that will do something.

[DarkJedi9]

Woohoo! Re-installing my jdk did the trick. Only thing I see that's different is that the plugin (/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so) is now a symlink to the original, as opposed to a copy. Doubt that would change things, so all I can think is that something got tweaked with my jdk somehow. Well, no use questioning it too much I guess. Thanks for the input, everyone.