Comment 2 for bug 199680

Nothing in bug #173966 was related, nor did any workaround affect anything: and plain HTTP did work, always. Probably cause is/was certificates.

Now, after removing all and installing icedtea-gcjwebplugin I see that a package called ca-certificates installed was included that wasn't there before.

And yes, it fixes the problem... kinda. Applets do load now, I think. At least the status message says so, but the browser hangs and stalls so much as soon as any applet been loaded, for any operation, that it's actually hard to tell, sorry.

It does seem that the SSL part is fixed with the new certs though, as far as I can tell. Thanks for the tip.