User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051224 Debian/1.5.dfsg-3 Firefox/1.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051224 Debian/1.5.dfsg-3 Firefox/1.5 Java applets seem to refresh the screen once and then go blank. See e.g. the URL above, but I haven't seen *any* applet work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Visit the URL Actual Results: Applet goes blank immediately Expected Results: Applet is usable The java VM is JDK 1.5.0 from Sun. Distro is Debian sid. Browser is Firefox 1.5 version 1.5.dfsg-3. Applets work with the same VM and Opera, mozilla 1.7 and Epiphany.

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060101 Firefox/1.6a1 http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_%28Firefox%29 Also type about:plugins in the address bar and check for the java plugin. http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/java.html#Linux

I believe this may be a duplicate of 315841. Are you using an extension like Adblock?

I am indeed using adblock.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 315841 ***

that bug was trunk only (i.e. not in firefox 1.5)

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!