Java (icedtea-weband openJDK6) crashes Firefox-10

[Tim Zingelman]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Florian Smeets wrote:

> On 02.02.2012 05:54, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> Since the upgrade to firefox 10, it crashes when try to access the
>> puzzles at http://www/jigsawplanet.com. The puzzles are java and
>> worked fine under Firefox 9. The only other thing I normally run that
>> is in Java is the ICSI netalyzr, and it runs fine. Anyone else had a
>> problem like this?
>
> Hi,
>
> this seems to be a known problem with the icedtea-web plugin and firefox
>> = 10 :(
>
> Assertion failure: rt->onOwnerThread(), at
> /tmp/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla-release/js/src/jsapi.cpp:6316
> Abort trap: 6 (core dumped)
>
> which is described here
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704249
>
> More info:
>
> http://blog.mozilla.com/dmandelin/2011/11/22/js-newsletter-112-1122/
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650411
>
> I did not find a fix or workaround.

There is now a patch posted here:

  http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=820

  - Tim