280897 - Firefox fails to handle .swf files even though the Macromedia Flash plugin is installed

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Sten Charleson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

Firefox shows the code of the Flash object instead of displaying it properly.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, can you give an example where this happens ? It's probably a
misconfiguration of the website (incorrect MIME-type).

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Reporter, you can use http://web-sniffer.net/ for the swf URL to see which
headers are sent by the server. I guess it is text/plain which is wrong. If so,
this is bug is either invalid or a Tech Evang bug for that domain.

Comment 3

[Patrick]

reporter, please read 
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html
and fill out all the fields of the bug report, such as URL etc.

also on bugzilla.mozilla.org you may chose to use REPORT A BUG, which guides you
to writing a useful bug report.

Comment 4

[Patrick]

reporter, please give more information, otherwise this bug report will be closed.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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