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[FrankoSport]

Greetings ....

What does Facebook use Java for anyway? Reason, I ask is that I have just started using Facebook on a regular basis and have noticed a few issues when running it throughout Firefox 3.5.1 with Java enabled.

If you do anything on Facebook for a long time during a single Firefox session with Java on, eventually the browser gets "stuck" and you can't do anything on it. At this point I will exit out of Firefox, but then I find that it is still in memory, so then I have to invoke Windows Task Manager to clear it out altogether.

Only today did I decide to experiment using Facebook in Firefox with Java disabled. So far, I have not had any problem doing this, and when I exit from Firefox, the browser clears itself from memory OK.

One other point - The only Java option that Firefox users appear to have is to either enable it or disable it. There is no exceptions option, at least that I can find. If such an option existed, ideally it should allow one to specificly list which web-sites you do NOT want Firefox's Java feature to be active on whenever you visited such sites.

Of course, Firefox could be made to do it the other way - Java always disabled, except for sites you list where you want Java enabled.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1

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Thanx-A-Lot and Enjoy, Frank-0-Sport

[richard mitnick]

I just got a facebook page. I have had no problems with Java, I do not see the Java icon appear in my systray.

but, I do understand your quandary, Java in FF causes my web mail from my ISP to crash FF. But, the web mail works fine with Java disabled, so also, what does it do? (Rhetorical question)

>>RSM

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

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[iJohnE]

I've had the same problems in FF 3.5.2.

However, everything seems to be running fine in 3.0.13.

I wonder if this is a 3.5 bug that needs to be reported?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009073022 Firefox/3.0.13

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[richard mitnick]

Very possible.

>>RSM

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[FrankoSport]

Greetings ...

To answer a question - I am most definitely referring to JAVA, which needs to be on when using certain Facebook features, such as photo uploads.

I've now elected to leave Java on while running Facebook in Firefox. If I ever get "stuck", I know I can bail out and start fresh.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

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Thanx-A-Lot and Enjoy, Frank-0-Sport