Fails with PhET simulations from U of Colorado

[Peter Halverson]

Hello,

When I try to launch Java physics simulation applets from the University of Colorado PhET web site I get
Fatal: Initialization Error: Could not initialize application.

You can try it yourself by loading this applet:
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/energy-skate-park-basics

Note that when I install the Oracle version of Java it works OK. (But I would prefer to use the open source Java)

My setup is:
Ubuntu 14 release 14.04 running on Parallels desktop
Firefox 29.0
icedtea-plugin 1.5-1ubuntu1
icedtea-netx-common 1.5-1ubuntu1
openjdk-7-jre 7u55-2.4.7-1ubuntu1

Have others had this problem?

Sincerely,

Peter H.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.