1332575 - Plugin "WidevineCdm" crashes, when profile isn't located in the windows user folder

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Audio/Video: GMP, defect)

Description

[Karina]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Build ID: 20161208153507

Steps to reproduce:

Plugin "WidevineCdm" (e.g. at Netflix or Amazon Instand Video) crashes when I try to play a DRM video. I created a new Firefox profile to test what's wrong. As long as the profile is saved at C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles, it works well. As soon as I shift my Firefox profile to another location and change the path in the profiles.ini, Firefox works fine, but the Plugin crashes when trying to watch a DRM video.


Actual results:

Plugin "WidevineCdm" crashes when trying to watch a DRM video.


Expected results:

Plugin "WidevineCdm" shouldn't crash and the DRM video should be played.

Comment 1

[Alex Chronopoulos [:achronop]]

Can you please find a peer to verify or not this bug?

Comment 2

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

The sandbox will usually block the CDM being loaded if it resides in a directory behind a "junction", which is roughly equivalent to a symlink on Windows.

Comment 3

[Anthony Jones (:ajones, :kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e)]

This should be fixed. Feel free to re-open if it isn't.