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Anyone able to successfully run a Java Applet with the 1.6 Applet Plugin in Firefox?

I'm using an applet loaded in tomcat that other non-Mac users can access and run using their java applet plugin, but mine causes Firefox to hang and then crash.

Any ideas? Thanks.

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Do ALL java applets cause a crash? Or only this particular one? If it's just this particular one, then most likely it's a bug in that java applet itself. It's not very hard to crash a browser using Java, plugins aren't very well isolated in Firefox (unlike Chrome or Internet Explorer), and Java is easier to crash than Flash is.

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The applet works when accessed from Windows machines running Firefox. – swimmer Feb 24 '10 at 17:23
That is not what I asked. Can you run any OTHER java applets? If it's just that one applet, then logic says there's a bug in that applet. Just because it works on windows, doesn't 100% guarantee it wont crash somewhere else. – davr Feb 25 '10 at 20:19
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