577848 - Flash video player doesn't display on website giantbomb.com

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tim Meader]

The video player for the website giantbomb.com doesn't launch when viewed using the Firefox 4.0b2pre 20100710 build.

Comment 1

[Tim Meader]

Disabling IPC and D2D acceleration has no effect. Attaching comparison screenshots. "Bad" is from Trunk build, "good" is from 3.6.7 Beta1.

Comment 2

[Tim Meader]

Attachment: Bad version from trunk build

Comment 3

[Tim Meader]

Attachment: Good version from 3.6.7 beta1

Comment 4

[Alice0775 White]

Regression window:
Works:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b7f3c1c9fb57
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091201 Minefield/3.7a1pre ID:20091201052221

Fails:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a5e1b195ecf7
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091202 Minefield/3.7a1pre ID:20091202045824

Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=b7f3c1c9fb57&tochange=a5e1b195ecf7

Comment 5

[Alice0775 White]

Regression window in tracemonkey build

Works:
http://hg.mozilla.org/tracemonkey/rev/c84622414ed3
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091119 Minefield/3.7a1pre ID:20091119045932

Fails:
http://hg.mozilla.org/tracemonkey/rev/2ca2a236da89
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091120 Minefield/3.7a1pre ID:20091120052422

Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/tracemonkey/pushloghtml?fromchange=c84622414ed3&tochange=2ca2a236da89

Comment 6

[José Jeria]

Error console:
Error: LaunchPad is undefined
Source File: http://media.giantbomb.com/media/video/js/video_10027.js
Line: 1

Comment 7

[Tim Meader]

Yeah, not sure what the issue is here, since loading up this page in FF 3.6.8 reports no errors at all in the Error Console. A refresh of the page in the 08/24 nightly for Firefox 4 returns the following console errors:

Error: assignment to undeclared variable _VINES_RANDOM_IDS
Source File: http://media.giantbomb.com/media/vine/js/base_10031.js
Line: 1

Error: LaunchPad is undefined
Source File: http://media.giantbomb.com/media/video/js/video_10027.js
Line: 1

Error: assignment to undeclared variable QUESTMANAGER
Source File: http://media.giantbomb.com/media/quest/js/quest_10008.js
Line: 1

Error: _VINES_RANDOM_IDS is not defined
Source File: http://media.giantbomb.com/media/vine/js/base_10031.js
Line: 1

Error: 'caller', 'callee', and 'arguments' properties may not be accessed on strict mode functions or the arguments objects for calls to them
Source File: http://media.giantbomb.com/media/vine/js/mootools-1.2.4-core-nc_10001.js
Line: 1

Going to post this on the site's support forum as well so hopefully their devs can take a look. This definitely appears to be JS changes between FF3 and FF4 that's the culprit here though.

Comment 8

[Thorsten Gebuhr]

Probably I've got the same error on this (german) Page:
http://vid.buffed.de/v/tHeI18ASW2E/buffedShow/buffedShow-207/

With FF 4 beta 4 and 5 (not tested earlier beta-versions) instead of showing the Flash-Video there's only a white Flash-frame.

Expected:
First this side shows a short add-video an then the main-video.

It workes in FF 3.6 and any other browser. When testing make sure you don't try to block adds, since this may interfere with the add-video.

Comment 9

[Alice0775 White]

http://media.giantbomb.com/media/vine/js/base_10031.js  starts with "use strict";

Maybe same as Bug 607188. and Tech Evangelism .

Comment 10

[Tim Meader]

Fixed by the website author. Closing.