1421407 - NOAA radar page omits the radar image.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Bob Stafford]

Attachment: LGX page in FF 57.PNG

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Went to
https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=LGX&product=NCR&overlay=11101111&loop=yes



Actual results:

FF page render omits radar image and renders remainder improperly.  I will attempt to attach FF and Chrome full page images clips. 


Expected results:

Chrome has rendered this page properly for many years.  With FF 57, the radar image is missing, and the page "footer" is rendered on top of the left side bar.   Oops! I found Bugzilla limit is a single attachment, so it be my FF 57 clip.  If you want to see the properly rendered page, you'll have to use your own Chrome browser.

Comment 1

[Bob Stafford]

I love open source, used FF before Chrome existed, but found FF eventually got too flaky to use.  I saw your Quantum release and gave FF another try.  You folks have released a REALLY SOLID BROWSER that puts CHROME IN SECOND PLACE.
Huzzah! Huzzah! for your tremendous accomplishment!

Comment 2

[Bob Stafford]

Attachment: LGX in Chrome.php.png

Comment 3

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

The images is Flash content. Please make sure you've installed and enabled Flash Player.

Comment 4

[Bob Stafford]

Thanks for the idea Mr. Yoshino. I am currently building up a Win10 computer, and trying very hard not to put any **** on it.  Both Chrome and Firefox 57 report that Flash is not installed.  Yet, the radar images render perfectly (and has for many years)in Chrome, but not in FF 57.  So, Flash as the culprit seems unlikely.  I really don't want to pollute my new system with Flash, just for a test; folks say that completely clean removal of Flash is somewhere between difficult and impossible.  It seems like someone doing testing on the new FF 57 might see if the Gov radar site loads correctly or not.  If I hear a "yes", I will hold my nose and install Flash here as a test.
Thanks again for your idea.

Comment 5

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

It's not a surprise because Chrome bundles Flash, while Firefox doesn't. Since Flash is going away in 3 years, Firefox has no plan to bundle it. The radar image is not displayed even on Chrome when Flash is disabled. Closing this as invalid = not a browser bug.

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2010/03/improved_flash_player_support.html
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Roadmap