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Bug 617475 - Freeze with openjdk6 6.b18_1.8 on webpages with javascript
Freeze with openjdk6 6.b18_1.8 on webpages with javascript
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: General
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
: 616756 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-05-02 21:29 UTC by Giedrius Slavinskas
Modified: 2011-01-20 21:01 UTC
See Also:
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Description Giedrius Slavinskas 2010-05-02 21:29:34 UTC 
After my system updated openjdk6 to 6.b18_1.8 version, epiphany freezes on webpages with javascript. 

I had switched to another browser for a week, because epiphany was not usable at all. Until I had found this bug report and some workaround http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19273
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2010-05-03 09:16:48 UTC 
As far as I know, Epiphany's javascript functionality comes from WebKit and is totally unrelated to the presence of a Java plugin.

Could you provide a URL where you observe the problem so that we can try to reproduce? Thanks!
Comment 2 Giedrius Slavinskas 2010-05-03 09:22:59 UTC 
You can reproduce this almost on every webpage. But following URL is guarantee http://www.gitready.com/intermediate/2009/01/31/intro-to-rebase.html
Comment 3 Reinout van Schouwen 2010-05-04 09:16:56 UTC 
*** Bug 616756 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Reinout van Schouwen 2010-05-04 09:18:22 UTC 
So what we have here is an incompatibility with the latest OpenJDK, observed only on Arch Linux yet. The next step is to establish whether this problem is specific to Arch or not. Reporters, can you test on other distributions?
Comment 5 Ionut Biru 2010-05-21 19:26:17 UTC 
i don't think is related to epiphany, mostly all webkit browsers are affected by openjdk6 to 6.b18_1.8
Comment 6 Sven Arvidsson 2010-07-16 13:37:25 UTC 
I'm a bit confused, is this really a _javascript_ problem? The upstream icedtea bug linked in the Arch bug report doesn't mention Javascript.

For Java applets, OpenJDK doesn't work with WebkitGTK+:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38478
Comment 7 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2010-12-06 02:04:13 UTC 
any news for this report?
Comment 8 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2011-01-20 20:53:03 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!
Comment 9 Sven Arvidsson 2011-01-20 21:01:57 UTC 
(In reply to comment #8)
> Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please
> feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
> Thanks!

It depends on if you're tracking the (dubious?) problem with Javascript, or the problem with OpenJDK. Bug 616756 was closed as a duplicate of this and was about Java, not Javascript.