1385107 - Firefox will freeze after watching Sky Go VOD for 10 minutes

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect, P3)

Description

[Dan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Build ID: 20170628075643

Steps to reproduce:

That title says. Watch HD VOD on Sky Go (game of thrones new season) and it will freeze after 10 minutes.


Actual results:

frozen.


Expected results:

Go on fluently.

Comment 1

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

Can you provide a URL that reproduces the issue?

Comment 2

[Bulk Bug Changes for mreavy's org]

Mass change P1->P2 to align with new Mozilla triage process

Comment 3

[Blake Wu [:bwu][:blakewu]]

It looks like http://go.sky.com/live blocks Firefox. 

"
Important Notice – Firefox customers

Watching Sky Go is no longer supported on the latest version of Firefox. Don’t worry, you’ll still be able to enjoy Sky Go using an alternative browser like Internet Explorer.

We are aware of the problem and are working hard to get this fixed as soon as we possibly can.
"

I tried to use Chrome. It showed "Sky Go is currently unavailable. Please try again later."

Mike,
Is this your team can help talk with them to see how could we help them?

Comment 4

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Sure thing Blake. Adam, do we have contacts with Sky already?

Comment 5

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Interesting. When using a VPN to UK I get the same schedule in Firefox 58 and Chrome using OSX. But don't have an account to test video. Without VPN I get the same "Sky Go is currently unavailable. Please try again later" message in all browsers.

Don't think we don't have contacts, but will reach out.

Comment 6

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Reaching out over LinkedIn.

Also found this:
https://www.sky.com/help/diagnostics/sky-go/sky-go-is-currently-unavailable-computer-windows

Comment 7

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Sky Go is relying on Silverlight which Firefox no longer supports. They are building a new version of Sky Go that doesn't require Silverlight. No indication of when that will happen though.

Comment 8

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 1 year(s).
See https://github.com/mozilla/bug-handling/blob/master/policy/triage-bugzilla.md#how-do-you-triage for more information

Comment 9

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

See bug 1547409. Moving webcompat whiteboard tags to keywords.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Dan, can you still reproduce this?