780517 - The new "plugins.click_to_play" setting doesn't work consistently.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Andy Fielding]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120606 Firefox/13.0
Build ID: 20120606130836

Steps to reproduce:

Set the new "plugins.click_to_play" setting to True.


Actual results:

This is supposed to prevent plugin media (e.g. Flash) from playing until you click them.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work consistently. On this page:

http://ioechomusic.com/

...the "click here" text appeared, but clicking had no effect and the media couldn't be viewed.


Expected results:

(You can probably figure that out.)

Comment 1

[Loic]

Attachment: Screenshot FF14/FF17

You should update to Firefox 14 because some click-to-play bugs have been fixed since Firefox 13 (and in the next versions too).

Anyway I tried with FF14/FF17 (see my attached screenshot) and it works fine even if FF14 blocks the JS/Flash sound component of Soundcloud (not the case in FF17).

In FF14, clicking on the blocked Youtube video OR the blocked Soundcloud manager enables the media.
In FF17, clicking on the blocked Youtube video enables the media (clicking on the visible Soundcloud manager doesn't do anything).

Therefore, I don't see a wrong behavior here.

Comment 2

[Andy Fielding]

Ah, great. Thanks.