31808 - Flash 4 objects never finish loading

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[Neil Marshall]

The Flash animation on StanLee.net displays, but never leaves the loading 
screen.  Its as if the download on the fly code in flash never gets activated.

I am using the Flash 4 plugin for Nav 4 in mozilla.
Build: 2000031314
On a Win98 machine.  I have also tried it on an NT 4 machine (I think its the 
same in Win2k as well)


I just tried some of the movies on www.shockwave.com - wierd things happen.  
Some plugins don't display, others run fine, others crash the browser.

Comment 1

[shrirang khanzode]

I see this problem. The movie never loads and "Loading..." message appears..

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

I think this is happening on http://www.acidplanet.com/gotopage.asp as well.

Comment 3

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Flash-->nsbeta2. Flash on b2 criteria.

Comment 4

[Peter Trudelle]

[nsbeta2-] unless this can be demonstrated on a more common site.

Comment 5

[Neil Marshall]

http://stanlee.net/ - is big in the comic book world
http://www.nikefootball.com/language_flash4.html (Choose English)- Other places 
on nike.com as well.
http://www.shockwave.com/ It just sits at a black screen!
http://www.turbonium.com/ Stops half way though.  Possibly other www.vw.com 
sites.

thats just after looking for a couple minutes... I'm sure I could find more.

Comment 6

[Neil Marshall]

http://www.nikeshopathletesworld.com/en/home.html here is another Nike one.

Comment 7

[Neil Marshall]

I just found out that the flash files which are not loading are externally 
loaded flash files.  (I know that the nikeshopathletesworld.com flash is done 
this way)

In Flash 4 this is how they are loaded:
actionscript --> load movie --> blah.swf --> layer 1

On pages where the objects are not external swf's, the pre-loaders work fine.  
Its only when they are external do they fail in mozilla/nav 6.
Eg, here is one that works: http://www.nikeshopathletesworld.com/en/home.html 
(This one is not externally loaded - I've seen the source)

Comment 8

[sean echevarria]

This looks similar to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37710.  
LiveConnect of legacy plugins is not supported and won't be supported.

Comment 9

[Neil Marshall]

But this isn't live connect.  Liveconnect is javascript... this doesn't use any 
javascriupt.

Comment 10

[sean echevarria]

Admittedly, I'm not too familiar with the scripting of Flash, but it looks like 
the code on some of these pages are expecting js callbacks.  The callbacks won't 
happen if they rely on liveconnect.

But in anycase, there shouldn't be any crashes.

What do you mean by an externally loaded file?  Maybe this is really 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23667.

Comment 11

[Neil Marshall]

Flash files can load external flash files.  For example, the flash on 
www.eightlines.com loads an external .swf file which is a picture of a tree.  In 
Mozilla you don't see the tree because the plugin never downloads the file.

If the flash plugin is streaming the file then yes, I think this bug is the same 
as (or is dependant on) 15546

Comment 12

[shrirang khanzode]

I retried this page with today's build. Now I no longer see the "Loading" 
message since the webpage seems to have changed. It appears the same on 4.x and 
seamonkey. Flash contents display and work fine. Could anybody onfirm this? 
Thanks!

Comment 13

[sean echevarria]

This works for me with the latest patch attached to 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23667.

Comment 14

[av (gone)]

Your patch most likely fixes this one. I'll mark it fixed as soon as it is 
checked in.

Comment 15

[sean echevarria]

Fixed with patch checked in for http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?
id=23667

Comment 16

[shrirang khanzode]

This is fixed, verified (2000062908)