172724 - Java error when starting Phoenix

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 83376

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[D. Horatio Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

When opening a new session of Phoenix a pop up error dialog appears.
The error message is:
"Java Plug-in for Netscape Navigator should not be used in Microsoft Internet
Explorer. Please use the Java Plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer instead."

Starting Mozilla 1.1 does not reproduce the error message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Phoenix

Actual Results:  
See 'Details'.

Expected Results:  
Browser should have opened without error message.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

That sounds like an IE error. I suspect you've got some adware or virus that's
causing that. I don't think this is a Phoenix problem. 

Comment 2

[D. Horatio Smith]

Error occurs when double clicking on Phoenix.exe from a freshly extracted
download  od Phoenix. IE shouldn't have a chance to enter into it. Machine is
adware/spyware  and virus free.

Comment 3

[D. Horatio Smith]

Preferences toolbar extention used with a previous installation of a Phoenix
nightly had been used to override the user agent to 'MSIE 6.0'. Removing the
user agent override line from prefs.js stopped the error at startup. When the
user agent override is used Phoenix reports itself to Windows as said user agent.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Sounds like a problem with a Phoenix extension and/or the Sun Java plugin and
not a problem with Phoenix. 

Comment 5

[ben wilson]

Is there are resolution to this?  I am using Sun's j2re1.4.0_01, which I
installed via Phoenix.  Is it a case of the J2RE not recognizing Phoenix?  Is
there a way I can override this?

Comment 6

[ben wilson]

There IS a resolution to this.  After reading Asa's comment on another bug about
removing old Phoenix profiles before running 0.3, I removed my old default
profile, and restarted Phoenix with NO error, and Java Applets run perfectly.  

Perhaps there is a way to resolve this old-profile issue internally?  It had
caused me a number of issues which seemed extremely bug-like to me, the causual
bleeding-edge user.  In any case, ditch your old profile by running 'phoenix
-ProfileManager'.  

Couldn't we at least get a batch file so that the Win32 users could click it to
run the profile manager, rather than dropping to a shell?

Comment 7

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Mass-verifying of old bugs.

Comment 8

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83376 ***

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

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