The Iris demo from JavaOne (http://swinglabs.org/iris/) seems to be broken in the Firefox browser in JDK 7 and (I believe) 6u4. It seems that a LiveConnect-related fix has broken something in how this demonstration performs its browser/applet communication. Since it uses only very simple JavaScript/Java primitives, this breakage should be taken as an indication that something fairly fundamental is now broken in the LiveConnect implementation on Firefox. The same failure does not occur on IE, though the Iris application is currently affected by 6576792 on JDK 7.

To reproduce the problem, go to the Iris page and enter a user name like "kenneth russell", "jasper potts", or "romainguy". It will hang while loading the thumbnails for the user's photosets (as opposed to the thumbnails for the photos in a given photoset, which is the symptom of 6576792).

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