Closed
Bug 18897
Opened 25 years ago
Closed 25 years ago
[FLASH] Flash movies are not recognized
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
FIXED
M16
People
(Reporter: ptownsend, Assigned: hoa.nguyen)
References
Details
(Keywords: platform-parity)
OS Redhat 6.1 Milestone 11. Successfully built Mozilla source with ./config and gmake. Flash plugins installed (netscape 4.x) in usr/lib/netscape/plugins; also copied flash .so and .class files to dist/bin/plugins. Ran the apprunner shell script. Loaded www.shockwave.com ; result: flash content not recognized by browser. On command line, typed "export MOZILLA_HOME=usr/lib/netscape" Ran apprunner shell script; Load www.shockwave.com; result: flash content not recognized by browser.
Updated•25 years ago
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Summary: [PP] Flash movies are not recognized → [PP] [FLASH] Flash movies are not recognized
Comment 2•25 years ago
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Shrirang is now QA owner for Plug-ins; QA assigning all of my Plug-ins bugs over to him.
Comment 3•25 years ago
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Am still seeing this problem on Linux build(2000012513M13). A grey area with "embed" appears in place of the plugin.
Updated•25 years ago
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Summary: [PP] [FLASH] Flash movies are not recognized → [FLASH] Flash movies are not recognized
Comment 5•25 years ago
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Existing flash players will not work on mozilla 5.0 under Linux.
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Comment 6•25 years ago
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This is actually part of a bigger problem that legacy (4.x) plugins in general don't work on Linux. We (Intel) are already working on a fix for this problem. We actually have some code which is almost ready for review and checkin. Andrei, if you don't mind, could you change the owner to of this defect to me.
Under RH6, currently with Netscape 4.7, Macromedia Flash 4 Player for Linux has worked perfectly well for one year now. Never heard of problems with it either. As far as i see, there is no way to even access/edit any "plugin" prefences in M14/M15 for Linux? Disabled? Copying the .so and .class-files to the plugin dir has no effect. Sorry for intruding in things i don't know anything about, but if others read this...might prevent a few messages.
Comment 9•25 years ago
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There is discussion in this bug... but nothing to suggest that a change could appear in the M15 branch. I'm pushing this to M16 to facilate the M15 stability checkpoint branch.
Target Milestone: M15 → M16
Comment 10•25 years ago
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rkaa -- See http://www.mozilla.org/docs/plugin.html#linux for background. In general, Nav4 Linux plug-ins won't work on Mozilla due to switch from Motif GUI to GTK GUI. Intel is working on a fix that partially addresses this, but don't assume that that fix will provide backward compatibility for all Nav4 Linux plug-ins; because of the different assumptions made by Motif code and GTK code, this approach to b.c. will need to be confirmed one plug-in at a time.
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Comment 11•25 years ago
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You might want to refer to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31012. The gating issue here is support of legacy plugins on linux. We've already checked this code in. I've also been told that we tested with the legacy (Nav4x) Flash plugin and it worked fine (at least for initial functionality). The big issue with Flash was not actually support of Motif since it turned out that Flash didn't use Motif. The issue was actually that Flash was dependent on some window names which were in Nav4x. The code for supporting legacy plugin takes this special case into account.
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Comment 12•25 years ago
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Fixed with http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31012.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Comment 13•25 years ago
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Even though browser crashes loading flash movies on linux (seperate bug), this problem(legacy plugin support on linux) is fixed as per Hoa Nguyen. Marking VERIFIED. Build: 2000060208
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Updated•2 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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