1292410 - Flash doesn't ask to activate

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Attachment: No dialog - windows 10 dev edition

Tested on dev edition OSX and Windows 10 50.0a2 (2016-08-04) and nightly 51.0a1 (2016-08-04) with a fresh profile.

STR:
0) Flash installed, set to 'Ask to Activate' in Firefox
1) Navigate to http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/trailblazers/videos/trailblazers-tales-nick-on-surviving-a-typhoon

Expected behavior:
Asked to activate flash for the video

Actual behavior:
Not asked, video doesn't load

The Discovery video is US only.
Canadian example: http://www.citytv.com/toronto/?video=5056166082001

Comment 1

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Attachment: No dialog - OSX nightly

Comment 2

[Michelle Funches - QA]

Attachment: 1292410-FlashAllow.png

Confirmed
Version 	51.0a1
Build ID 	20160805030444
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0

Comment 3

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

This is by design from bug 1186948. You need to manually:

1. Click the plugin icon in the address bar.
2. Click the "Allow Now" button.

Then the page will reload and the Flash video should start. We need to make the click-to-play prompt more obvious to users.

Comment 4

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

(In reply to Chris Peterson [:cpeterson] from comment #3)
> This is by design from bug 1186948. You need to manually:
> 
> 1. Click the plugin icon in the address bar.
> 2. Click the "Allow Now" button.
> 
> Then the page will reload and the Flash video should start. We need to make
> the click-to-play prompt more obvious to users.

... without regressing bug 1289496.

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is fixed short-term by disabling bug 1186948. We'll continue to iterate.