Closed Bug 326713 Opened 19 years ago Closed 16 years ago

netscape.com - Player won't play - Message says to get an earlier (!) version of firefox.

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English US
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: c300331, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Trying to view Netscape/AOL videos and get the following message:"We're sorry, the player has encountered problems initializing. Please restart your computer and try again, if you continue to get this message try a previous version of Firefox located here." and the "here" is a link to something.........

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.www.netscape.com
2.click on a video file
3.window opens - bombs out

Actual Results:  
Video doesn't play

Expected Results:  
Video should play
Component: General → English US
Product: Firefox → Tech Evangelism
Assignee: nobody → english-us
QA Contact: general → english-us
Summary: Player won't play - Message says to get an earlier (!) version of firefox. → netscape.com - Player won't play - Message says to get an earlier (!) version of firefox.
Site now redirects to

http://us.video.aol.com/player/launcher

and works fine in Firefox 2.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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