436301 - flash player controls on youtube not working on Firefox 3 (with Flash Player 10 Beta)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P2)

Description

[Supriya Rao]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

On Mac 10.4 and 10.5, youtube pause/play and volume controls do not work after installing Firefox 3 release candidate.

The issue is that the YouTube flash app is receiving events from (0-374) in the Y dimension in FireFox 3RC, but is receiving events from (0-394) in the Y dimension in FireFox 2 PR & Safari 3.1.1(5525.18).

Events are not being received by the flash app in the (375-394) Y dimension on FF 3RC for some reason. 

Seems likely a FireFox bug.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install Firefox 3 release candidate from here:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html
2. go to youtube and play any video
3. try to play/pause video or reduce volume
Actual Results:  
the buttons don't work normally. if you keep hovering across the button, sometime it gets activated.

Expected Results:  
buttons should work properly

reason for the issue given in the details section above

Comment 1

[Corey Farwell]

Is this the same issue? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436210

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

Is that happening with the Flash 10 beta ? With Flash 9.0 r124, it works fine here, with and without Flashblock active. With Flash 10 beta, I had seen that issue indeed (I had to uninstall that one, too many sites don't recognise it).

OS X 10.5.3
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008052816 Minefield/3.0pre

Comment 3

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

See bug 434914 comment 13. This is fixed in RC2.

Comment 4

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Supriya, please confirm that this really is fixed in Firefox 3 RC 2.
I have my doubts.

You can download a copy of the current Firefox 3 nightly (which should
be equivalent to RC 2) at:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.9.0/firefox-3.0pre.en-US.mac.dmg

Comment 5

[Luke Bellandi]

I can still reproduce this in the nightly build posted (as linked above.)

Comment 6

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Thanks, Luke.

Now please respond to philippe's questions from comment #2 :-)

Comment 7

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

i guess its more a dupe of Bug 78414 

Comment 8

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

On the face of it, this seems like a mouse bug, not a keyboard bug (and therefore not a dup of bug 78414).

But I need to look into it further to be sure.

Comment 9

[Luke Bellandi]

Strange. I still see the bug in 6/2/2008 RC2-nightly with Flash Player 10 Beta,
but it behaves correctly with Flash Player 9r124.

Comment 10

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

So ... what happens using the Flash Player 10 Beta with Firefox 2 (or with Safari)?

And if the Flash Player 10 Beta is also available on other platforms (like Windows and Linux), what happens there?

Comment 11

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

> So ... what happens using the Flash Player 10 Beta with Firefox 2
> (or with Safari)?

Actually, this seems to have already been answered by the following
from comment #0:

> The issue is that the YouTube flash app is receiving events from
> (0-374) in the Y dimension in FireFox 3RC, but is receiving events
> from (0-394) in the Y dimension in FireFox 2 PR & Safari
> 3.1.1(5525.18).

Comment 12

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

I'm already working on an event-tracing plugin for bug 357670.  Sounds
like it will also be needed here.

Comment 14

[philippe (part-time)]

This now works correctly with Flash 10 b2 (Shockwave Flash 10.0 d536, released: 20080707).
Did you guys fixed it inside the plugin ?
 

Comment 15

[Luke Bellandi]

Yes -- we ascertained this to be a plugin bug, and that was fixed in the Flash Player beta-refresh-release.

This can be verified and closed, as appropriate, against the newly release Flash Player plugin beta. Thanks for following up on this, Philippe.

Comment 16

[philippe (part-time)]

(In reply to comment #15)

Thanks for the feedback !

Resolving this as WorksForMe, then.