303066 - Installation of Firefox 1.0.6 breaks Flashplayer & Shockwave functionality

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Jos Joslyn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Firefox/1.0.6

I ONLY see this issue with Firefox 1.0.6, Opera on the same system - using the
same installed plug-ins is perfectly fine. When visiting sites that use either
Flashplayer, or Shockwave Media plug-ins via Firefox 1.0.6 none of these
features work. The Flash Media Buttons at sites (*.swf) are not viewable in the
way they are intended, and sites where Shockwave media is running - i.e.
http://www.macromedia.com - all I see are the panels allocated for the media and
a "Quicktime Q" with a "?" over the top. I have Quicktime installed, and
operational 

Flashplayer is v. 7.0.19.0
Shockwave is v. 10.1r11

Both are the latest available from the sites (I have also tried the Beta v8 of
Flashplayer - to no avail)

Re-installation of Firefox 1.0.4 and removal of Firefox 1.0.6 resolves the issue

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Firefox 1.0.6 over an exixting installation of Flashplayer and Shockwave
2.Visit http://www.macromedia.com - observe failed function of both flash & shock
3.

Actual Results:  
The Flash Media Buttons at sites (*.swf) are not viewable in the way they are
intended, and sites where Shockwave media is running - i.e.
http://www.macromedia.com - all I see are the panels allocated for the media and
a "Quicktime Q" with a "?" over the top. I have Quicktime installed, and
operational 

Expected Results:  
I would expect to see "flash media buttons" and "shockwave media" to be
played/observed as I do in Firefox 1.0.4 and Opera 8.02

Comment 1

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

as with any firefox upgrade, I had to reinstall the plugins when I upgraded to
1.0.6 which it let me do, so wfm

Comment 2

[Stephen Smith]

RESOLVED WORKSFORME? - Flash has to be upgraded each time around.

Comment 3

[Jos Joslyn]

Re-installing Falshplayer or Shockwave is not/should not be a requirement.  I
only ever recall having to do it once before, and that was from a "Firebird" to
"Firefox" release.  And in any case, don't you think I have already tried
this....... many, many times.

If a re-installation were required why would simply installing 1.0.4 - not over
the top of an existing installation - to a "virgin" destination path function
first time?

There obviously is an issue of some sort, as I have observed there a number of
issues raised against flashplayer and/or shockwave at 1.0.6.  One even indicated
that function of these plug-ins was known to be an issue at 1.0.6.  But that it
was an issue with the Macromedia software.  If that was the case 1.0.4/et al
would also fail.  The fact that it is an issue ONLY with 1.0.6, seems to prove
that it is something that has been altered in Firefox that has broken the
functionality

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

May be a dupe of bug 230809, but I'm not sure how the updates are handled in 1.5.

Comment 5

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Is this still a problem with 1.5 or the latest branch that will be 2.0?
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8

Comment 6

[Steve England [:stevee]]

No response from reporter re: comment  -->INCOMPLETE.
Reporter, if you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2 please reopen this bug. Thanks!