341044 - Flash Player installation in Vista Beta 2

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Tom Ziegmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060609 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060609 Minefield/3.0a1

Attempting to install Flash Player in the latest release of Firefox (as recommended.) The plugin finder appears and attempts to install the plugin. The install fails and then when you attempt to do a manual install the Flash install says it cannot access certain files within the Mozilla Firefox folder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Clean install of both Vista Beta 2 and Firefox
2.Navigate to webpage with flash functionality
3.attempt to install flash plugin

Actual Results:  
Plugin installation fails

Expected Results:  
Flash would install and the page would refresh and the plugin would work

about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
i586-pc-msvc

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	14.00.50727 	-TC -nologo -W3 -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	14.00.50727 	-GR- -TP -nologo -Zc:wchar_t- -W3 -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)

Configure arguments
--enable-application=browser --enable-update-channel=nightly --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-svg --enable-canvas --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-windows --enable-update-packaging

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Which files can the flash installer not access ? Does it say ?

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

Does the flash player you download off macromedia.com fail too?  Vista is unsupported you know...

Comment 3

[Tom Ziegmann]

The file that cannot be modified is c:\program files\mozilla firefox\plugins\npnul32.dll. I understand that vista is not supported but when this is a popular application and the OS will be shipping by years end I think the attempt should be made now rather than later to include the support.

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> The file that cannot be modified is c:\program files\mozilla
> firefox\plugins\npnul32.dll. I understand that vista is not supported but when
> this is a popular application and the OS will be shipping by years end I think
> the attempt should be made now rather than later to include the support.
> 

If downloading the official flash player from macromedia.com/adobe.com has the same error, talk to them, the plugin finder just repackages their installer (in fact, the pfs just downloads an .xpi from macromedia).  Since the npnul is in the error msg, I am blaming the flash installer, which isn't mozilla code, but Adobe.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

correct component and version