Adobe dynamic forms on Mac OS X

I just purchased a brand new Macbook Pro. However I need to install windows on it to be able to use it for work.
My work uses Adobe Reader dynamic forms for us to submit orders. Currently dynamic forms don't appear to work in Mac OS X Lion or Mountain Lion.
I have installed Mozilla Firefox and can download the Adobe Form as a pdf file, open it and edit it. But when I press the submit button the form times out.
The forms do work fine on our Windows machines.
Will this eventually be fixed?
Is there away around this that I am unaware of?

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