Go to above url which is a java applet. I get a message saying that I should "click here to get the plugin". I do that and go through the entire process of downloading and installing. Instructions are a bit confusing because at one point I was told that I would have to restart the browser in order to use the downloaded plugin, and at another point I was told that I would need to restart windows in order to do so. So I tried both but neither worked. I am still not able to run the java applet on the above page. When I returned to the page after the reboot I was told again to "click here to get the plugin". I did click a second time, went through the download procedure again, but it didn't help.

I would consider it dogfood if I am unable to run java applets.

This works fine for me on Win NT.

Wint WINNT4.0 SP3, Mozilla 10/11/00, JPI 10/13/00, this applet loads and displays correctly.

I don't doubt that the applet would run fine once you get the plugin. My problem appears to be that I am unable to get the plugin. What could I be doing that's wrong?

I never was able to get this to work. Following message to mozilla-seamonkey was just posted by Akkana. My understanding is that you have to get the Java plugin as part of a Netscape install. The Java bits downloadable from Sun are the wrong ones and don't work with Mozilla. Theoretically this is going to be fixed at some future time, but I haven't seen a bug that tracks that issue; might be worth reopening 56660 or filing a new bug to make sure there's a record of the problem. Therefore reopening this bug report but removing the dogfood and rtm indications since it is apparently working in the commercial bits if you use the installer (which I never do).

Not being able to run Java with Mozilla would be a major loss in functionality. Howver, I got the N6PR3 Java xpi for Linux to work with Mozilla at the time PR3 were released (but I got error msgs about Java not being loaded during startup). Dunno, what I tried, but I could run some Java app(let)s. morse, did you try to just point Mozilla at the xpi file?

I tried and did exactly what I was told to do by the messages that appeared on the screen when I encountered the applet. If I wasn't able to get java to run following those instructions, then certainly a typical user will not be able to do use java either. Either the instructions that are presented to the user are wrong, or the installation is flawed. In either case, java won't work for a typical user.

I agree with morse@netscape.com that this is really a bug in the installation software or documentation rather than the java plug-in itself. I suggest changing summary from ``Unable to run java applets'' to ``Unable to install a functioning Java plug-in''. Clicking on a page with a Java applet (I use http://www.time.gov/ but I'm sure it's generic) opens a window that claims to be downloading the plugin via ftp, but it never finishes. (This might be an unrelated problem with my proxy). When I hit `cancel' in that window, I get a message directing me to ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.0/windows/win32/smartupdate/jre13i.exe . When I download and run this file, it creates (when I accept the defaults) C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.0_01 and sticks a bunch of files in it. Even after rebooting, though, Mozilla doesn't act any different -- it still prompts ``Click here to get the plugin''. Is this the right version for Mozilla ? Maybe Mozilla just isn't detecting it ? This is on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010114 .

Installing the JRE 1.3.0_01 plugin doesn't completely work for me either: After installing Mozilla, I have to copy the NPOJI600.dll into the Plugins directory by hand. Same if I install Mozilla first and then the JRE.

bug 66339 is addressing the same issue (kind of..)

Is this tbe same as bug 58267? That one has a patch coming soon.

Change summary

Xiaobin, this is in your category.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66840 ***

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