This was motivated, coincidentally enough, by the TTC website. Scrolling text effectively forced me to use Internet Explorer to get route information, which is sad.
There are better uses for a JVM than scrolling text. I acknowledge that this is the least of the TTC’s issues, but Javascript and Flash have come of age.
I’m on a new system, with Windows Vista (oh noes!), with the latest version of Firefox, and it froze when trying to open this lame scrolling text applet. A JRE came installed, so it was a bit of a head-scratcher as to just why things weren’t working. Mozilla suggested that I install the latest JRE using XPInstall. I tried, that, but it fails with error code 203, which seems to be a pretty common problem. I wound up using the offline installation executable.
After setting everything up, Java applets no longer crashed Firefox; they just refused to load. I tried disabling and re-enabling the JVM through both Firefox and the Java control panel, to no avail.
What fixed the whole issue was the use of a registry patch. It adds an entry that should be present, but despite numerous versions of Firefox, continues to be forgotten by the installer. If you have problems, merge the registry patch first. It’s the most likely cause.
Tags: firefox, java, software, toronto, ttc, windows
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