247786 - Flashplayer 7 is used in this web page to display news in two panels, left and right. The left one displays as it should, the right one is a gray rectangle (this works fine in Mozilla 1.7 and Firefox 0.8)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Thomas Ronayne]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9

I have the Flash 7 plugin installed in the plugins directory for both Mozilla
1.7 and Firefox 0.9. along with the xpt file in the components directory -- note
that this page displayed properly in Firefox 0.8 and does display properly in
Mozilla 1.7. Unfortunately, the page is assigned to me as my home page, so I
dunno how you'd get to a similar page without an account...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Firefox 0.9 (as root, first start as root, exit, do the following,
restart)
2. Copy flashplayer stuff to plugins and components (and Acrobat, Java,
Mplayerplugin, RealPlayer)
3. Connect to sbc.yahoo.com

Actual Results:  
same thing -- no joy in Mudville.

Expected Results:  
Displayed the silly Flash thing that SBC Yahoo insists upon.

Comment 1

[Thomas Passin]

I can confirm this Flash behavior on Windows 2000/Firefox 0.9.  I installed the
latest Flash from Macromedia.  The installer found all my Moz and Firefox
installations.  Now pages with flash components do not show the Flash material
in Firefox 0.9, while the same pages work normally in Firefox 0.8.

The plugin is present in the plugins directory.

This is fairly serious for me because my ISP gives access to my email using
flash components.  Right now when I want to read my mail in a browser (i.e.,
when I am away from home) I have to go back to 0.8.

Comment 2

[Mathias Wittlock]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707
Firefox/0.9.2

One thing I have noticed is that when upgrading to Firefox 0.9.x from 0.8 Flash
will not display at all if you previously had the extension FlashBlock (or Flash
Click2Play, not sure if it changed name or something) installed. The fix for
this  (on Windows at least) is to go to C:\Documents and
Settings\[WindowsUserName]\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.[threeRandomLetters]\chrome
and delete the userContent.css (or remove the FlashBlock specific data) and
restart FireFox.

Having done these steps I can't see anything weird about sbc.yahoo.com (other
then that I had the ads blocked with AdBlock, but I disabled that and the site
looked just fine).

Comment 3

[Carlos Mejia]

Using:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If you go to http://trellianetworks.com/ you will see that the flash in the
left/top corner of the screen is not displayed.  I am using windows xp (sp1) and
the lattest flash drivers.

Comment 4

[Thomas Ronayne]

The behavior of Flashplayer 7 varies between Mozilla 1.7.5 and Firefox 1.0
(Mozilla displays properly, Firefox displays a "left" rectangle normally and a
"right" rectangle grayed as described previously). At one point I tried a
Mozilla 1.7.5 distribution built for GTK-2 rather than GTK-1 and had the same
grayed box display. It appears that the problem may have something to do with
the differences between GTK-1 and GTK-2, although other's experience similar
behavior on windows platforms (and I doubt they're using GTK libraries there). I
have these installed on Linux 2.6.7:
mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.5-installer.tar.gz
firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz

Comment 5

[Scott Mewett]

I've also have the same problem with dsl.sbc.yahoo.com. I'm using Mozilla 1.7.7
and Firefox 1.0.4. on RHEL4.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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