[Bug 1495] a java website freezes firefox

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http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1495

--- Comment #4 from Andrew Azores <aazores at redhat.com> ---
Yes, same Firefox version. I can reproduce the freeze on Arch if I click a link
and go back to the original page, as you said, but only when using the
IcedTea-Web package from the repos. The mercurial build still handles it fine.

I've done a little digging to find out why this is affecting Arch and not
Fedora. Here's what I found. The Fedora package has received at least one
update since the last time the Arch package was updated, namely this one:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11291/icedtea-web-1.4-1.fc18

from 20 June. In the build info of this package I see this in the ChangeLog:

* Wed Jun 19 2013 Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com> 1.4.0-1 - added patch1
b25-appContextFix.patch to make it run with future openjdk

I've also found this message in the mailing lists:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-June/023745.html

which includes what should be our b25-appContextFix.patch.

I've downloaded the Arch PKGBUILD and modified it to apply this patch, then
repackaged and installed this modified package, and it seems to have fixed the
issue. So this patch is definitely what you are missing to make this work.

I will look into the next steps from here. Either that patch needs to be
applied to the source tarball which the Arch package downloads, or the Arch
maintainers of the ITW package need to be informed of this patch so that they
can do what I did and apply the patch in their PKGBUILD and release an updated
Arch package.

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