Java Crashing Firefox

I currently have the OpenJDK6 and Icedtea Plugin for my Java with my system fully updated. Recently, within the past couple of weeks, an online Java game I play (Arcanists on FunOrb.com) randomly crashes during games. I can be playing for hours or just a few minutes, but it will almost always crash Firefox while I'm playing.

Thinking back, the only new update that would affect it would be possibly a Firefox update, since I don't remember any recent OpenJDK updates.

I'm running 64 bit Intrepid, 2 gigs ram, core 2 duo processor at 2.53 GHz.

Any other specs or command outputs anyone needs, just ask. I've been running Ubuntu for about a year now, but I still don't know very much about it, so any help is greatly appreciated.

I have a similar problem with Java locking up firefox. I use the Hush Encryption Engine from www.hushmail.com, and I have trouble loading it consistently. When it loads, firefox will take up most of the CPU time and will become unresponsive. Weird!

Anyone know of this bug?

why not install Alpha 64-bit Java plugin? on 24.12.08. they made available b03 subversion.

wget http://www.java.net/download/jdk6/6u12/promoted/b03/binaries/jre-6u12-ea-bin-b03-linux-amd64-22_dec_2008.bin
cd /opt
sudo sh ~/**where_You've_downloaded_it**/jre-6u12-ea-bin-b03-linux-amd64-08_dec_2008.bin
cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
sudo ln -s /opt/jre1.6.0_12/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so

See this thread for instructions on installing Java 64bit

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1013658