229312 - Web sites think Java is disabled on MacOSX10.3

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 97613

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Ernie Franic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/106.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/100.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

In the page at http://usfconnect.usfca.edu, there is a script querying Mozilla about its capabilities, 
and Mozilla reports that Java is disabled even when it is not. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://usfconnect.usfca.edu
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
Receive the following message:

Browser Problem
  Before you can enter Campus Pipeline, you will need to fix the following:

    * Java support has been turned off. 

	If you need assistance, contact your system administrator.

Expected Results:  
Displayed the USFconnect login screen.

Configuration: Mac OS X Panther 10.3 Clean Install on blank hard drive; Mozilla 1.6b

Comment 1

[Mijail]

Same result with OS X 10.3.3, latest Java update (1.4.2_03), latest Nightly Build:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040419

Works OK on IE and latest Safari (1.2 - v125.1)

Comment 2

[riscky]

I will confim this with
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040509
Firefox/0.8.0+ (with new profile)

10.3.3 and latest Java

Comment 3

[riscky]

I was wrong... this isn't new... page use javaEnabled()

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97613 ***