35914 - Shockwave player not detected and grey box appears

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

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

Description

[Miriam Geller]

I have installed Shockwave 8 Player into Netscape 6 beta 1.  When I go to a site 
with Shockwave content, the Shockwave content shows up as a grey box.  

It doesn't indicate that I don't have Shockwave Player installed, it just shows 
up as a big grey box.

Comment 1

[shrirang khanzode]

The plugin seems not to be detected on this page. But shockwave movies on other 
pages do load and play properly. Pls try www.powershot.com or www.oddcast.com. 
Changing summary.

Comment 2

[Adam]

http://www.powershot.com/ and http://www.oddcast.com/ both work for me.
Shockwave Player 8.0r196, Mac OS 9.0.4, Mozilla M16 2000041608
Describe behavior occurs on Macromedia's website (I bet they do it on purpose).

Comment 3

[av (gone)]

Adding comments from Miriam.

powershot.com and oddcast.com are both FLASH sites, not Shockwave.
This is a Shockwave site:  http://www.rita.nu/iSketch.shtml
Or any of the games at: http://clevermedia.com/arcade/
Please contact me if you need further information.
Miriam
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Miriam Geller                            [e-mail]

Comment 4

[shrirang khanzode]

Yep, thanks Miriam !

Comment 5

[Adam]

Verified. All Shockwave (vs. Flash) content shows up as a grey box (the Shockwave 
content doesn't even appear to load). Confirming and changing to critical (non-
critical component (yet) and Flash is still on hold until M17).

Candidate for pp? (Status of Shockwave on Windows/Linux?)

Comment 6

[shrirang khanzode]

I get a crash if I try to load this page on mac. Momentarily a grey box is 
displayed but then the browser crashes.

Stack Trace:


 Trigger Type:  Program Crash 

 Trigger Reason:  Illegal PowerPC instruction 

 Call Stack:    (Signature = 0x00000008 064f279b) 
     
   0x00000008 
                                                   
     
   PluginLib + 0x33d8 (0x1601fc68) 
                                                   
     
   PluginLib + 0x7bac (0x1602443c) 
                                                   
     
   PluginLib + 0x35ec (0x1601fe7c) 
                                                   
     
   PluginLib + 0x39d0 (0x16020260) 
                                                   
     
   NP-PPC-Dir-Shockwave copy + 0x444 (0x162da894) 
                                                   
     
   ns4xPlugin::CreatePlugin() 
                                                  [ns4xPlugin.cpp]
     
   nsPluginHostImpl::GetPluginFactory() 
                                                  [nsPluginHostImpl.cpp]
     
   nsPluginHostImpl::SetUpPluginInstance() 
                                                  [nsPluginHostImpl.cpp]
     
   nsPluginHostImpl::InstantiateEmbededPlugin() 
                                                  [nsPluginHostImpl.cpp]
     
   nsObjectFrame::InstantiatePlugin() 
                                                  [nsObjectFrame.cpp]
     
   nsObjectFrame::Reflow() 
                                                  [nsObjectFrame.cpp]
     
   nsLineLayout::ReflowFrame() 
                                                  [nsLineLayout.cpp]
     
   nsInlineFrame::ReflowInlineFrame() 
                                                  [nsInlineFrame.cpp]

Comment 7

[shrirang khanzode]

Forgot to mention that I added the 'Np-PPC-Dir-Shockwave' plugin file manually 
in mozilla's plugins folder.

Comment 8

[Adam]

Yeah, the automatic installation of Shockwave doesn't work. Further contact from 

Miriam shows that this problem also occurs on Windows platforms (Shockwave 

content shows up as a black box and fails to load/display).

Comment 9

[shrirang khanzode]

Not really, I can see shockwave working on windows for m15 builds. Try link 
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/shocklist/index.html . Also the above 
mentioned url (macromedia) plays shockwave properly on windows build. 

Comment 10

[leger]

Putting on [nsbeta2-] radar.

Eric, is this happening because Macromedia needs to update Shockwave plug-in?

Comment 11

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

I see several issues here. shrir, could you please separate this out into 
distinct bug reports as appropriate?

1) a crash bug that should be fixed

2) the autodetect-and-use-Nav4-plugins-when-plugin-not-installed-in-Mozilla 
feature doesn't seem to be working for Shockwave; we may not bother to fix this 
depending on the decision on bug 23856 ("should we load Nav4 plug-ins or not"). 
So don't invest cycles fixing this aspect of this bug until that decision's 
made. Marking dependency on 23856 for this specific sub-issue.

3) Separate from (2), if the existing Shockwave plug-in binary (when manually 
installed into the Mozilla plugins directory) doesn't work, that's a bug 
with backward compatibility with existing plug-in binaries (sans LiveConnect)--a 
key goal of the Mozilla plug-in API.

4) If there are any PP differences here, that's another separate issue.

Comment 12

[shrirang khanzode]

I logged a seperate bug for the crash problem ( bug 36568). Logged another bug 
for backward compatibilty problem ( bug 36569). 
Bug for quicktime crashing browser is bug 24718. Bug for Realplayer crashing 
browser is bug 36571.

Comment 13

[av (gone)]

Shrirang, if everything is covered in other bug reports, can we close this one? 

Comment 14

[shrirang khanzode]

Yes.

Comment 15

[shrirang khanzode]

marking verif since seperate bugs have been logged for all problems mentioned 
here.

Comment 16

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

*** Bug 62081 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Sorry, this isn't a dup of one of my bugs.