295317 - Won't shut down after bad streaming media

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: ActiveX Wrapper, defect)

Description

[John Owen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 (ax)

Using Windows media player 9 activeX plugin to view webpage with live streaming
video from Window media encoder. If Firefox visits the webpage when the encoder
is not active and is then shut down (top right corner [X] ), it *appears* to
close down (There is no taskbar icon) but leaves an instance running - according
to Task manager.

As an example, I notice this on my own streaming webpage:
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~vwlowen/webcam/streamtestB.htm


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit webpage with streaming media active
2. Close Firefox
3. Firefox closes down ok.

4. Visit webpage where steaming media is not encoding
5. Close Firefox
6. "Invisible" instance of Firefox still running


Actual Results:  
as above

Expected Results:  
it should have shut down.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[John Owen]

The bug is still reproducible in version 1.0.7

Open Firefox from "fresh" and visit:
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~vwlowen/webcam/streamtestA.htm

That page contains an embedded activex windows media player but the url stated
in the media player FileName is deliberately incorrect - for the purposes of
this test.  Close down Firefox while the embedded player is still displaying
"Connecting to media" and the instance of Firefox will still be running in
Windows device manager.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

John wrote "I can't replicate the problem in 2.0.0.11" but didn't close the bug.
=> WFM per reporter

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

John, we don't know what mozilla patch/bug fixed this. SO the correct resolution is WFM. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#resolution which is the link given at "change resolution"  (and if the problem was WMP, then the resolution to use is INVALID)