David Chamberlin wrote:
> OK, I figured out my problem. It turns out that the reinstall had
> nothing to do with it. The difference between when it worked and when
> it didn't was apparently it works when I run it from work and it doesn't
> when I run it from home.
>
> I narrowed down the problem to the fact that java seems to be expecting
> to find a host called webproxy. At work we have a host called webproxy,
> at home I don't. I put a webproxy in my c:\WINDOWS\HOSTS file which
> points to my ISP proxy (which isn't necessary, I have a direct
> connection). Now it works fine.
>
> Any idea why the JRE is expecting a webproxy? I have my proxy settings
> set to Direct Connection.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48336
