1290474 - Flash ask to activate does not work on areena.yle.fi

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1289670 +++

Firefox does not offer to activate Flash when trying to watch videos on YLE Areena after bug 1186948 landed.

Test: http://areena.yle.fi/1-2037581

Now Areena asks one to update Flash, if Ask To Activate is enabled

Comment 1

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

...but updating doesn't help.

But if Flash is always activated, Areena works fine.

Comment 2

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

The plugin icon appears in the address bar for me (i.e. this is working as expected). Are you seeing differently?

Side note, I'm working on replacing "update/install flash" banners in bug 1289802.

Comment 3

[6lobe]

The hanger does not appear but the plugin activation icon does.

Comment 4

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

How to display a doorhanger without regressing bug 1289496?

Comment 5

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

FWIW, I submitted this bug in favor for a friend who said Flash with ask-to-activate doesn't work anymore with Nightly. And then I also tested, and couldn't get flash working.
Perhaps there was some way to enable Flash, but at least two tech-savvy FF users couldn't immediately understand how.
Earlier there was a doorhanger showing that Flash could be enabled.

Comment 6

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Masatoshi Kimura [:emk] from comment #4)
> How to display a doorhanger without regressing bug 1289496?

We could display the door hanger when we detect a "install flash" banner in bug 1289802.

Comment 7

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?) from comment #6)
> (In reply to Masatoshi Kimura [:emk] from comment #4)
> > How to display a doorhanger without regressing bug 1289496?
> 
> We could display the door hanger when we detect a "install flash" banner in
> bug 1289802.

Then again if we're successfully replacing those banners with CTP UI, the door hanger might be overkill

Comment 8

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

What are we going to do here?

Comment 9

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

This is working as expected showing the plugin icon in the address bar. I think this is won't fix.

If the icon isn't obvious enough for people, replacing the install flash content (bug 1289802) should improve that.

Comment 10

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Not tracking for 50/51.

Comment 11

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

(In reply to Olli Pettay [:smaug] from comment #5)
> at least two tech-savvy FF
> users couldn't immediately understand how.
> Earlier there was a doorhanger showing that Flash could be enabled.

Make that three. Plus the filers of other bugs since then. This UI is awfully well hidden and has led sites like deezer.com to direct users to change the setting to "Active Everywhere".