What's a browser compability of JavaScript for Acrobat ?

I have a pdf with two fields that needs to be filled by user.
I am using a Javascript for Acrobat to display a prompt dialog asking user to enter a data. it works pefectly fine on my local computer, but whenever I open it using various browsers I am running into different problems:
Firefox: 20.0.0 No prompt dialog is showing up. Error (warning) message in developer's console: [09:49:17.064] Warning: TODO: unimplemented annotation type: FreeText
Safari: 6.0.4 Certificate is displayed sideways. No prompt dialog is showing up. No errors in the developer's console.
Chrome 26.0.1410.65 : works fine!
Opera 12.15 nothing shows up, no pdf, warning or anything else.
So it doesn't work on 3 out of 4 browsers that I checked.
My pdf is embedded into the following file.
http://uwf.edu/cde/mobileweb/certificate.cfm
Is there a way to make it work on those browsers?

Each of these browsers has its own PDF viewer. Some of them can optionally be set up, by the end user, to use Adobe Reader instead.
(Don't overlook Windows 8 IE10, which defaults to running Windows 8 Reader.)
And don't overlook the mobile browsers on iPad, iPhone, Android...
Now each piece of software works, or doesn't, according to the designs and errors of their own developers. It would be a useful and helpful project if someone compared whether these viewers support interactive forms, and JavaScript, and if so what part works... but I have never seen the results of such a project. There are other pitfalls: Mac Preview, and hence Mac Safari, will fill a form but return a form which appears blank.
You might try insisting that your users use Adobe Reader.

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