Closed Bug 1542132 Opened 5 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Flashplayer hangs when version is less than current version of flash

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

66 Branch
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: keepitsimplestupid, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

Current version of Greater than installed version.
e,g, 32.0.0.132 installed 32.0.0.156 current
It's happened before with other Flash versions and other versions of FF,
It may happen with must update flash versions - don't know.

Goto www.AEBN.net (Adult Pay site unfortunately)
Login - you can get some free minutes,
You need the correct movie settings that uses Flash.
Search for the move "dad crush 3"
Next to the "Play Movie" ICON there is a gear.
Use the gear and set the video format to "Auto select" if not already.
Play that movie,
Blank screen appears and nothing else happens,

The fix is either update Flash or use the trick below

Going to Web Developer/Web console

Cannot play media. No decoders for requested formats: application/vnd.apple.mpegURL fullframe.html
230 UnifiedPlayer.js:219:7

The movie will now play.

Just accessing the Web Console is enough to cause the media to play. It's not just that movie.

Update Flash and the problem goes away.

Actual results:

In what did you do.

Expected results:

Something similar to the Adobe screen.
It asks want you want to Adobe Flash to run
There is checkbox to enable it.

That same info should appear with something like:
Flashplayer (32.0.0.132) is not the latest version (32.0.0.156)
Then either:
Update at your convenience or
You must update Flashplayer to play this video.

Hanging is unacceptable.

Component: Untriaged → Plug-ins
Product: Firefox → Core

i want to mention that "media.libavcodec.allow-obsolete" is set to TRUE.

The priority flag is not set for this bug.
:jimm, could you have a look please?

Flags: needinfo?(jmathies)
Flags: needinfo?(jmathies)
Priority: -- → P3

flash is dead.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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