From 281872ba376cdbbf4cc000ae8dc96958acae6177 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jprocter <jprocter@compbio.dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:43:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] JAL-1149 patch

---
 src/jalview/util/BrowserLauncher.java |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/jalview/util/BrowserLauncher.java b/src/jalview/util/BrowserLauncher.java
index 9014de2..8d0d488 100755
--- a/src/jalview/util/BrowserLauncher.java
+++ b/src/jalview/util/BrowserLauncher.java
@@ -233,7 +233,13 @@ public class BrowserLauncher
     if (osName.startsWith("Mac OS"))
     {
       String mrjVersion = System.getProperty("mrj.version");
-      String majorMRJVersion = mrjVersion.substring(0, 3);
+      String majorMRJVersion;
+      if (mrjVersion==null) {
+        // must be on some later build with mrj support
+        majorMRJVersion = "3.1";
+      } else {
+        majorMRJVersion = mrjVersion.substring(0, 3);
+      }
 
       try
       {
-- 
1.7.10.2