581837 - Website no longer recognises Java is installed with 4.0b1

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andre-John Mas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:2.0b1) Gecko/20100628 Firefox/4.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:2.0b1) Gecko/20100628 Firefox/4.0b1

The web page, http://www.keepvid.com/ , is giving the following error when submitting a URL from YouTube.

"Error: Please click here to download Java. If you already have Java, please restart your browser and try again."

This works with Firefox 3.6

I have tried with both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Firefox. Trying applets on other sites work, such on:

http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.4/demo/applets/BarChart/example1.html



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Sounds like there may be some broken UA sniffing going on. Have you tried forcing a Firefox 3.6 UA string on the site?

Comment 2

[Andre-John Mas]

Didn't seem to change anything. I would like to try to see whether the Java applet is throwing an exception, but I am not sure how to display the Java console.

Comment 3

[Andre-John Mas]

I have also contacted the website to see if they can offer any ideas.

Comment 4

[Tanner M [:Tannn3r]]

Reporter, can you still reproduce this bug in Firefox 6?

Please update to Firefox 6 or later, update your plugins, and retest in a new profile. If you still see the issue with the updated version of Firefox, please post here. Otherwise, please close as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

http://getfirefox.com/

Comment 5

[Gregory Pappas [:gregp]]

Java applets are no longer supported