[Bug 894] New: Applet crash causes plugin to hang until Firefox stops the script.

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http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=894

             Bug #: 894
           Summary: Applet crash causes plugin to hang until Firefox stops
                    the script.
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: IcedTea-Web
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86_64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: Plugin
        AssignedTo: dbhole at redhat.com
        ReportedBy: ddadacha at redhat.com
                CC: unassigned at icedtea.classpath.org


If you run an applet and it crashes while initializing (applet constructor),
starting a second one will hang the plugin and not initialize the new applet
until after Firefox prompts you to stop the script running the first one.

I've noticed that any existing applets run fine so it has to be while the
applet is loading. This means that if an applet crashes, the plugin thread is
stalled somewhere, before it finalizes the applet initialization. This has to
be happening during the APPLET_LOAD event.


To reproduce:

NOTE: Running the second one has screwed up my browser session so save your
tabs etc before testing.

Create an applet that throws an exception in the constructor (e.g. String x =
null; x.length();). Once you have run it, try starting another one that you
know works. The second one will hang because the plugin cannot initialize the
applet until after the first one has completed. After a while, Firefox will
prompt you to kill the script running the first one, stop it and the second one
should be running as normal.

I have tested with IcedTea-Web HEAD, 1.2 and 1.1 - all have the same behaviour.

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