1239406 - Flash AS2 key press not detected in 64bit versions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1180684

(Core :: Security: Process Sandboxing, defect)

Description

[csamborski]

Attachment: Key.isDown demo. Pressing left arrow key should show 'true'.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20160112004003

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to play to the original Meat Boy (flash game) at: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/463241

This also happened when trying to play to:
Meat Boy (map pack): http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/472826
Hammerfest: http://www.hfest.net/try.html
Attached file: (see above) (reuploaded from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185529)




Actual results:

When I open one of those file in Firefox (it works with the standalone player or other browsers), my keyboard inputs are not detected. For example, in the attached demo "Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)" always displays false even if I press the left arrow.


Expected results:

I expect the Flash Player in Firefox to detect when a key is down.
(The attached file should display true when the left arrow is pressed, and the games should just work).

This is the exact repetition of this previous bug I filed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185529.

Comment 1

[Loic]

WFM with FF45 protected mode on/off e10s on/off.

Comment 2

[YF (Yang)]

Works fine in 32bit versions, not works in 43.0 64bit.

Comment 3

[csamborski]

Hi,
Any updates ?
As I mentioned in the first post, this is issue was already reported and solved a few months ago. Now that it is broken again (regression ?), isn't it possible to solve it with the same patch ?

I wanted to try again (I checked the meat boy link) and I noticed that the Enter key seems to be detected but not the other keys (space, arrows).

I get that HTML5 is promoted instead of Flash, but there is still content relying on this technology. I love the politics of Firefox so I will stick with it, but for persons wanting to just use these flash animations, I'm afraid that it might incite them to jump for competitors :/

Comment 4

[Loic]

Only the 64b version is affected.

Reg range: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=d8e5f72da53aad99d4d4b67de44cb80f62754aa8&tochange=5d168ed7999b8f4c3472a822eddafd2b630870a5

Comment 5

[Bob Owen (:bobowen)]

Unfortunately, we don't have a solution for this old Flash content with our NPAPI sandbox enabled, which it is on 64-bit.

The previous bug was used to track fixing 32-bit, which was also broken in pre-release for a while.