282975 - major league baseball player stats hitting chart falsely report that flash is not supported

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[neopia9]

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

In other browsers, when I go to the Hitting Chart option on Player Pages, I get
the hitting charts in Flash format. In Firefox, I get an error message:

"We're sorry but the browser you're using doesn't support the Flash
functionality required to view this page.
Please try again using a browser other than Netscape 6.0, Internet Explorer for
the Mac, or any browser below version 4.0."

even though I have already installed Flash.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to
http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/bos/stats/bos_player_locator_results.jsp?playerLocator=varitek
2. Click "Hitting chart"
3. The error message should now appear

Actual Results:  
I get an error message as described in the Details

Expected Results:  
The Hitting Charts should have appeared

about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
i686-pc-cygwin

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TC -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TP -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)

Configure arguments
--disable-ldap --disable-mailnews
--enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth
--enable-crypto --disable-composer --enable-single-profile
--disable-profilesharing --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests
--enable-static --disable-shared --enable-official-branding

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Not firefox's fault.