I reported this as a bug. For completeness, I will mention here that I got feedback within minutes that " We have determined that this report is a new bug and have entered the bug into our bug tracking system". Unfortunately since the bug reporter hung for a minute and I pressed submit again I ended up with two Bug Ids: 9009752 and 9009753. My experience is that these instant approvals don't really mean that the bug was accepted and the bug number gets changed once the bug gets a real human acceptance.
It is odd that the latest version of Java should fail on the latest version of the most commonly used browser on the latest version of the most commonly used operating system. I would have guessed that would have been a combination that someone would have tried. I documented in my report that various steps such as disabling NOD32 didn't fix the problem. If anyone has further suggestions please let me know. Java not working on a key environment is a problem for all of us, and since it appears to be a security issue, someone here might have an insight. Xerxes Rånby [mailto:[email protected]] wrote: OpenJDK do not contain any of the code used by the closed-source java plugin to diplay the problematic popups. The openJDK community is unable to help you unless Oracle decide to opensource its deployment code and plugin. I suggest you to file a bug in the Oracle bugtracker. http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/
