1225415 - Playing Vimeo video embed on medium.com causes Nexus 6P phone to lock up or restart/reboot

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1221228

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Using the latest Firefox for Android beta release from Google Play (v43.0b2), on a Google Nexus 6P running Android 6.0.

1) Open https://medium.com/backchannel/pac-man-s-siren-call-4b589ea1d1e#873e
2) Check the video with thumbnail of a Windows XP desktop is showing (it has a caption beneath it that says "It’s the siren of an invisible Pac-Man game...")
3) Tap the video

Expected:
Video plays - or even if it doesn't, the browser remains responsive and the phone does not restart.

Actual:
The first time...
* The phone wouldn't respond to me pressing volume up whilst the video was loading
* The screen then went entirely black
* The Google boot logo appeared and the phone went through a normal boot up sequence

The next time...
* The screen froze (image remained the same, touching the screen had no effect) rather than going black
* I had to long press the power button to force restart the phone


Note: Using Chrome on the phone, the issue does not reproduce.

The original markup in question:

<figure name="873e" id="873e" class="graf--figure graf--iframe graf-after--p"><div class="iframeContainer"><iframe data-width="960" data-height="720" width="700" height="525" src="/media/69ace0764b78fe8fc4d9657114c38e09?maxWidth=700" data-media-id="69ace0764b78fe8fc4d9657114c38e09" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></figure>

This iframe then contains another iframe:

<iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fplayer.vimeo.com%2Fvideo%2F143556154&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F143556154&amp;image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F541167789_960.jpg&amp;key=d04bfffea46d4aeda930ec88cc64b87c&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=vimeo" scrolling="no" width="700" frameborder="0" height="525"></iframe>

Which contains another iframe:

<iframe allowfullscreen="true" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/143556154?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2Fmedia%2F69ace0764b78fe8fc4d9657114c38e09%3FmaxWidth%3D700" id="player" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Comment 1

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

It seems as though others are seeing this with the Nexus 6P and Firefox for Android too:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/T_CN5jSnQsc

(Sigh, I wish people would file bugs)

Comment 2

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

And also:
https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/nexus/uhvZVgK2zz0/discussion

Comment 3

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Visiting https://player.vimeo.com/video/143556154 directly in Firefox for Android doesn't reproduce.

Comment 4

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

Duplicate of bug 1221228?

Comment 5

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Ah yes. It's only fixed on Nightly at the moment.
I'd searched closed bugs too, but one of the keywords I'd used was "Nexus", which wasn't present in that bug summary.

Thanks :-)