414450 - EPGY Web courses do not work in Firefox Mac

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Plugins Graveyard :: Java (Java Embedding Plugin), defect)

Description

[Frankie]

Students (and teachers) attempting to use EPGY's online math software hit two errors in Firefox on OS X. The first is in the "Certify" page which tests browser compatibility. EPGY's Java applet is unable to set (or read?) cookies, resulting in failure.

EPGY works in Firefox on Windows (and Linux) as well as Safari on OS X.

The second error occurs in the actual course applet, which requires a password and will be entered as a separate bug later.

Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Firefox on OS X (and the Java Embedding Plugin that's bundled with
Mozilla.org web browsers for OS X) does support accessing the
browser's cookie store, and has done so for about a year.

I suspect there is something wrong with the Java applet at this bug's
URL (http://epgycourses.stanford.edu/certify/).  The following error
appears in the Java Console when it runs:

epgycourses.stanford.edu/Applets/)
java.lang.NullPointerException
  at epgyk7.certify.CertificationApplet$10.doTest(CertificationApplet.java:602)
  at epgyk7.certify.CertTest.run(CertTest.java:15)
  at epgyk7.certify.CertificationApplet$DisplayTestClass.
       doTest(CertificationApplet.java:650)
  at epgyk7.certify.CertTest.run(CertTest.java:15)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)

Please contact the applet's authors and ask them to look into this,
and comment here (in this bug).

Comment 2

[Frankie]

Update: EPGY works properly in Firefox 7 Mac.

No idea what changed, but it's good.