Firefox not exiting (JApplet)

From:

"Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:21:01 +0000 (UTC)

Message-ID:

<slrnefr1uj.8ht.sjsobol@amethyst.justthe.net>

I have a weird problem. Firefox is refusing to exit when I'm on a page
containing a JApplet I'm writing, unless I navigate off that page first. I
have also tried a barebones JApplet created by the Eclipse visual editor;
the only thing I've changed is to add a stop() method:

package com.stevesobol.gallery.editor;

import java.awt.BorderLayout;

import javax.swing.JApplet;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

public class Test extends JApplet {

    private JPanel jContentPane = null;

    /**
     * This is the xxx default constructor
     */
    public Test() {
        super();
    }

    /**
     * This method initializes this
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public void init() {
        this.setSize(300, 200);
        this.setContentPane(getJContentPane());
    }

    /**
     * This method initializes jContentPane
     *
     * @return javax.swing.JPanel
     */
    private JPanel getJContentPane() {
        if (jContentPane == null) {
            jContentPane = new JPanel();
            jContentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());

        }
        return jContentPane;
    }

    public void stop() {
        System.out.println("stopping");
    }

}

<html><head><title>Photo Thumbnail Generator</title></head>
<body style="margin-top:25px">
<p style="text-align:center">
     <object id="broken2" type="application/x-java-applet"
width="500" height="500">
     <param name="code" value="com.stevesobol.gallery.editor.Test"></param>
     <param name="codebase" value="./"></param>
     <param name="type" value="application/x-java-applet"></param>
     </object>
</p>
</body></html>

The stop() method is called, but Firefox remains resident in memory. If I
navigate off the page with the applet and then close Firefox, it exits
properly.

JRE 1.5.0_07, Firefox 1.5.0.6, WinXP SP2 with all of the updates.

Thanks in advance
  **SJS

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