Basic question re: applet in Firefox vs IE and "basic user" on XP

[jmreinwald]

I have an oddball situation--my company has a certain web product with a java applet. A customer of ours wants to install the JRE (our applet dictates version 1.4.7, I believe) on an XP machine, but leave end-users at the Basic User level, meaning they do not want to give users Power User--much less admin--statuses.

When installing the jre, they install it for "all users" and not just the current one. When logging into the site as a basic user, the applet does not launch. There's a catch--this is when using IE6. When they use FireFox, it opens for basic users.

Let me know if I should ask over in the IE forum, but I was wondering if anyone knows of any "IE quirks" that would explain this.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Rhoon]

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=623060&tstart=225

this link may help you out. This person was having the same problem you describe.

Let me know if that doesn't solve the issue and I can dig more stuff up.

HTH

Andrew

 

[jmreinwald]

Andrew, thanks for the link, but it doesn't look too much like the same situation. I also have to admit, I've not found anything really covering the same problem--searching on keywords like "ie6", "firefox", "java", etc produces a ton of stuff, but nothing really close.

To summarize my long-winded initial post, as a Basic User, the applet loads fine in FireFox, but not IE6.

On an odd side note, when logging into the same box with a local administrator account, the applet works fine in both browsers, yet all the security settings are the same in IE for both user accounts.

 

[excession]

this could be a long shot but I've had weird problems before with xp. Although I've installed an app for "all users" only those with admin rights could use it. the problem turned out to be the security setting on the instal dir (I think it's a bug in my machine but still). I solved the problem by marking the install dir as shared.

This is obvously not the perfect solution and no doubt someone with more knowledge of xp could cure the problem in a better way, but hopefully it's an idea and could be worth investigating.