276864 - Launchcast used for playing music videos at Yahoo will not open in Firefox

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 121832

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Robert Pfuetze]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050101 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050101 Firefox/1.0+

The launchcast program reports that I must have Netscape 6 or 7 or higher.

I reported this problem to Yahoo and here is their response:

Robert, it seems that you are getting this problem when trying to play the music
in the Launchcast player from the SBC Yahoo! Home page.  Please know that
Launchcast is not compatible with Mozilla Firefox browser.  You may note the
following basic system requirements for using the Launchcast player.

Windows 95B, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000 Professional, XP Home, or Professional. 
Pentium II, 233MHz or faster. 
At least 64MB RAM. 
Internet Explorer, Netscape, or AOL browser, all at 4.0 or higher (NOT
compatible with Netscape 6 or 7). 
Windows Media Player 6.4 or higher (Please Note: LAUNCHcast is not currently
compatible with the Windows Media Player 9 beta software.) 
Macromedia Flash 4.0 or higher. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on any music video to view it.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
I get the following message:

ERROR


To use this application with Netscape, you must use a 4.7x or 7.1 version.
Download now.

Please use the following error code when writing to Yahoo! Help. (Error Code: 12)

Expected Results:  
Open and play the music video.

All other types of videos (news, entertianment, and movies) play on this site
without any problem.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121832 ***