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Build: NetBeans IDE 7.4 Beta (Build 201307092200) VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM, 23.7-b01, OpenJDK Runtime Environment, 1.7.0_25-b30 OS: Linux User Comments: mytholog: 1 GUEST: <Please provide a description of the problem or the steps to reproduce><Please provide a description of the problem or the steps to reproduce><Please provide a description of the problem or the steps to reproduce> GUEST: Chrome Netbeans Connector Stacktrace: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:203) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:145) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:159) at org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser.plugins.Utils.readZip(Utils.java:229) at org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser.plugins.chrome.ChromeManagerAccessor$ChromeExtensionManager.getCurrentPluginVersion(ChromeManagerAccessor.java:247) at org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser.plugins.ExtensionManagerAccessor$AbstractBrowserExtensionManager.isUpdateRequired(ExtensionManagerAccessor.java:66)
Created attachment 139240 [details] stacktrace
Created attachment 145384 [details] stacktrace A java.lang.NullPointerException exception has occurred. C:\Users\SriBala\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\8.0beta\var\log folder. java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:208) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:150) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:164) at org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser.plugins.Utils.readZip(Utils.java:229) at org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser.plugins.chrome.ChromeManagerAccessor$ChromeExtensionManager.getCurrentPluginVersion(ChromeManagerAccessor.java:247) at org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser.plugins.ExtensionManagerAccessor$AbstractBrowserExtensionManager.isUpdateRequired(ExtensionManagerAccessor.java:66) at org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser.plugins.chrome.ChromeManagerAccessor$ChromeExtensionManager.isInstalledImpl(ChromeManagerAccessor.java:183) at org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser.plugins.chrome.ChromeManagerAccessor$ChromeExtensionManager.isInstalled(ChromeManagerAccessor.java:132) at org.netbeans.modules.extb
Created attachment 148965 [details] stacktrace <Please provide a description of the problem or the steps to reproduce> When I try to run the HTML5 Application I get this error.
The exception shows that the Chrome extension (NetBeans Connector) that should be in NetBeans installation (at <nb_home>/webcommon/modules/lib/netbeans-chrome-connector.crx) cannot be found. I have modified the corresponding code to handle this situation in a graceful way. Modified file: https://hg.netbeans.org/web-main/rev/87623cfdfb7b