RE: Info Center TOC and Firefox?

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / David Gibbs
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 10:51 AM
>
> Is anyone else having a problem using the TOC Java applet in the
> Information center with Mozilla Firefox on WinXP (Java 1.4.2_05)?
>
> I can't get it to properly display the TOC ... either it doesn't display
> at all or just a small square in the upper left corner.
>
> When I open the Java console I see a massive number of "NavBar: null
> pointer exception occurred in paint" messages being displayed.
>
> Any suggestions?

I don't remember if I experienced that exact problem while I was testing it
a few weeks ago, but if you try doing a search on the main InfoCenter page
and, in the search results window, you click on a link, nothing happens.  (I
had to right-click and select Open Link in New Window.)

I sent feedback to the InfoCenter team and, basically, it is a known problem
with the Java plug-in.  The recommendation was to uninstall the current
Plug-in and install an older version (1.4.1_04) that IBM has "great success
with across all browsers.  We have a copy of it stored at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/jre/javaplugin.exe";.

Since yours appears to be a Java-related problem, you may want to check this
out.  I would be very interested if this fixes your problem.  I haven't
installed the older plug-in yet on mine, as I've been too busy and I burned
a bunch of time on Firefox; had to get some real work done.

hth,
db