1172634 - (Setesh) Firefox becomes unresponsive when selecting to play any CNN.com videos

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Todd Brais]

Attachment: fx39_Setesh_defaultdriver_dxdiag.txt

Actual Result:
When the user navigates to CNN.com and selects to play and video posted on the page; Firefox will become unresponsive
Note: Nothing was displayed under the: about:Crashes

Expected Result:
CNN.com videos don't become unresponsive when trying to play them

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch FF, and navigate to CNN.com
2. Select to play any video on the CNN.com website
3. The video will not play, and FF becomes unresponsive

Comment 1

[Todd Brais]

Attachment: ff39_Setesh_defaultdriver_support.txt

Comment 2

[Todd Brais]

Attachment: Setesh_defaultdriver_crash.txt

Comment 3

[Mason Chang [Inactive] [:mchang]]

I tried to reproduce this today but couldn't. I also see that Gecko 39 doesn't have an option to disable hardware media decoding as well.

@Todd - Does this reproduce on Release (Gecko 38) or Dev Edition? (Gecko 40)? Thanks!

Comment 4

[jescalle]

I was unable to reproduce this issue on 38, 39beta or 40(dev).

Comment 5

[Trammel May]

This bug no longer occurs on Firefox Dev 43. Unable to reproduce.