1008217 - Applet not loading on MacOS

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[nwspeete]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140421221237

Steps to reproduce:

We have an applet in a webapp that is run from a local development server.  The request to accept the applet intermittently appears and the applet loads on occasion.  We try clearing the cache and restarting Firefox 29 (latest update) but this intermittent behavior continues.  We have tried many combos of permission and the behavior is the same. Current:
  <manifest>
	        	<attribute name="Application-Name" value="Applet name"/>
	            <attribute name="Permissions" value="all-permissions"/>	 
		        <attribute name="Caller-Allowable-Codebase" value="*"/>	
 </manifest>


Actual results:

The certificate for the applet prompt acceptance only appears intermittently. Note: this only happens in Mac OS with Firefox. The applet loads in all other OS and Browser combos.


Expected results:

The certificate acceptance prompt should appear every time the webapp is loaded. The applet should then lay down some files on MacOS.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Why do you believe that this is a Firefox problem and not a Java problem? As far as I know Java shows all of the relevant prompts for this.

Comment 2

[nwspeete]

Attachment: Image of the Security Warning That Should Pop up

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

That is a Java warning dialog. Please file this bug with Apple or Oracle.