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stoutfellow ([personal profile] stoutfellow) wrote2004-11-17 05:47 pm
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Firefox and Java: deja vu

Firefox, Java and I don't seem to get along.

When I started using LJ, I noticed that some people's animated icons were visible as such on my office machine (using IE), but not on my home computer (using Firefox). There were also other situations in which Firefox seemed not to cooperate with Java, most notably in connection with Haloscan. (A number of blogs that I visit periodically implement their comments using Haloscan; I can bring them up, again, on the office computer but not at home.) At some point a few months ago, something (I don't remember what) happened, which prompted me to do something else (I don't remember what), and lo and behold the animated icons came to life. (Still no luck with Haloscan, though.)

A couple of days ago, I upgraded to Firefox 1.0. There've been one or two immediately visible improvements. Unfortunately, I've lost the animated icons again.

One of these days I'm going to have to figure out how to get FF and Java to play nice.

Update: The icons are back, and Haloscan works too. I don't quite know what happened. I uninstalled the Java run-time environment and downloaded the update, but haven't installed it; nonetheless, things are working now.

Should I sacrifice a chip to the computer gods, in thanksgiving?
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[personal profile] sraun 2004-11-17 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know where the setting is, but I know what it is - Firefox is rendering the last 'screen' of an animated graphic. There's a setting somewhere that tells it to do that - I know about because Privoxy does the same thing for me.

ive just installed firefox

[identity profile] thebluerose.livejournal.com 2004-11-18 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
and my LJ animations appear to be fine *shrug*

[identity profile] neonnurse.livejournal.com 2004-11-21 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
I was having that trouble, but it was because of ZoneAlarm trying to make my browser more secure. I guess. I tweaked it a little for both Firefox and IE and now the gif icons are fine. Do you have a firewall that could be doing it?

[identity profile] stoutfellow.livejournal.com 2004-11-21 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
ZoneAlarm was definitely involved in previous iterations of this problem, but that doesn't seem to be the case this time. Anyway, at least for the moment things have mysteriously improved, so I'm not touching anything...

[identity profile] neonnurse.livejournal.com 2004-11-22 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Good plan!