Catching applet exceptions in Firefox

Question

In IE in the ff. code, the catch clause is entered if someMethodThatThrowsExceptions does throw an exception. However, this is not the case in Firefox. Is this a limitation in Firefox's Javascript engine or LiveConnect implementation? Does a workaround exist?

try {
  document.applets["someApplet"].someMethodThatThrowsExceptions();
} catch (e) {
  handleError();
}

Answer 1

use

document.getElementById('someApplet').someMethodThatThrowsException()

Answer 2

Checked where I should have checked in the first place: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/LiveConnect. Found out that this is a known problem in a certain LiveConnect version. Discussion, solution and work-around here: http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=45933&tstart=0.