Thanks for that tip. Looks like I and several other people have been affected by https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/436221 and thus have apparmor enabled on firefox without realising it is supposed to be disabled by default.
-- apparmor-profiles freezes Firefox when using Java applets (Sun JRE) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484148 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs