At some point, my Firefox 3.0.x on OS X 10.5 stopped opening Java applets. The failure occurs silently -- the applet simply doesn't run, with no apparent error message in the browser.
In the Console log, the output is
5/20/09 11:43:02 AM [0x0-0x104104].org.mozilla.firefox 2009-05-20 11:43:02.116 firefox-bin[2616:10b] JEPController:checkBundle couldn't find libawt.jnilib
#46: JEPController:checkBundle couldn't find libawt.jnilib
Solved!on May 20, 2009, 06:50 PM UTC — from 
yliu ( 1,156 views )
yliu ( 1,156 views )
Switch the Java SDK version around in OS X Java Preferences
- yliu on May 20, 2009, 06:58 PM UTC
In /Applications/Utilities/Java/Java Preferences.app, swap the SDK used to launch applets. For example, I started out with the default as Java 5 (32-bit). When I switched to Java 6 (64-bit), applets started working again.
Not exactly sure what the underlying cause of this is.
Not exactly sure what the underlying cause of this is.
References used:
How do I test whether Java is working on my computer?
( http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml ) - found by
yliu on May 20, 2009, 06:51 PM UTCmbostock: Java Broken on Firefox
( http://mbostock.blogspot.com/2008/09/java-broken-on-firefox.html ) - found by
yliu on May 20, 2009, 06:52 PM UTC
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mbostock: Java Broken on Firefox
http://mbostock.blogspot.com/2008/09/java-broken-on-firefox.html - found by yliu on May 20, 2009, 06:52 PM UTC
java applets stopped running - console reports libawt.jnilib not found
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=el&comments_parentId=166411&forumId=1 - found by yliu on May 20, 2009, 06:52 PM UTC
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How do I test whether Java is working on my computer?
http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml - found by yliu on May 20, 2009, 06:51 PM UTC
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