18897 - [FLASH] Flash movies are not recognized

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[ptownsend]

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.

Comment 1

[Eli Goldberg]

[Please also note bug 16125. Thanks!]

Comment 2

[Eli Goldberg]

Shrirang is now QA owner for Plug-ins; QA assigning all of my Plug-ins bugs over
to him.

Comment 3

[shrirang khanzode]

Am still seeing this problem on Linux build(2000012513M13). A grey area with 
"embed" appears in place of the plugin.

Comment 4

[shrirang khanzode]

*** Bug 20407 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[shrirang khanzode]

Existing flash players will not work on mozilla 5.0 under Linux.

Comment 6

[Hoa Nguyen]

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.

Comment 7

[av (gone)]

OK.

Comment 8

[rkaa]

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

[Jim Roskind]

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.

Comment 10

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

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.

Comment 11

[Hoa Nguyen]

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.

Comment 12

[Hoa Nguyen]

Fixed with http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31012.

Comment 13

[shrirang khanzode]

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