334668 - CNN.com news video won't play news when using tab feature

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sindiso]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

CNN.com news video opens in a new window and plays the advert in bottom frame (showing that the feed is coming through) but it will not play the News.  The news videos played fine before I started using the tab feature (this is despite my having unblocked all pop-ups from the CNN website) - they still play fine using Internet Explorer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to www.cnn.com
2. Go to "Best video"
3. Click on "Now in the News"

Actual Results:  
The new window opened and the advert in the lower frame continued playing but the news clip did not.  The screen bit seemed to disappear because the control buttons which are usually at the bottom of the new screen (immediately above the ad frame) moved rapidly to the top of the screen/window.  The timer also read 00:00:00

Expected Results:  
The news would have started rolling and the timer would have registered the length of the news clip and counted up to that time.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

No response from reporter re: comment 1 -->INCOMPLETE.
Reporter, if you still see this problem with the latest release of Firefox 2, please reopen this bug. Thanks!

Comment 3

[u279076]

Either CNN has updated their website or this was fixed in Firefox 2.  This is WORKSFORME with Bon Echo 2.0.0.5 on Win XP.  Changing resolution to more accurately reflect this result.