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Following the most recent Mozilla and Java update, I receive the following error when accessing Blackboard: java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: browserchecker_applet.jar. How do I repair this? Thank you.

dtbruce

Details of the cache error are as follows:

java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: browserchecker_applet.jar at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin.cache.JarCacheUtil.preload(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2Manager.loadJarFiles(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Details of the cache error are as follows: java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: browserchecker_applet.jar at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin.cache.JarCacheUtil.preload(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2Manager.loadJarFiles(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

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Mozilla are aware of the issue of many Java applets not working in Firefox 3.6.14 and are working on a fix, no timescale but they are planning on a quick release.