453379 - Flash video on CNN won't play on 3.1a2 trunk and 3.0.3pre branch builds

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3pre) Gecko/2008083104 GranParadiso/3.0.3pre
Build Identifier: 

Flash videos on cnn doesn't seem to play any more on cnn.com.   Need to track down regression.  

Error thrown says: 
Second chance exception while raising fatal exception: Error name: InvalidArgsError, Error message: Error Type:  InvalidArgsError

Error Text:  No vertical node listener registered for node type: LiveSlate

See screenshot for errors in additional error console.  They only appeared after i enabled Firebug.  

Also, running Flash version 8 and 9 r124 on both PC and OSX.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install a trunk nightly, 3.1alpha 2 build, or branch nightly
2. goto url
3. click the video in the upper right hand corner (eg. Republican National Convention)
4. Verify popup video appears, and error is thrown.   Go to error console and verify errors in: 

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIWebNavigation.sessionHistory]"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml ::  :: line 644"  data: no]
Source File: chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml
Line: 650

Regression range: 
Works: on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008090212 Firefox/3.0.2
broken: on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2pre) Gecko/2008071104 GranParadiso/3.0.2pre
Actual Results:  
Video should play on cnn.com.  This works on Fx3.0.2, but not Fx3.0.3pre and 3.1pre

Expected Results:  
Video doesnt play on Cnn.com for branch and trunk nightly.

Comment 1

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

Attachment: Cnn No Video screenshot

Comment 2

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

can we get this investigated for alpha 2?  This is a regression on a popular site.

Comment 3

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

FWIW, flash works fine on other sites like www.youtube.com and www.msnbc.com.  seems to be something on cnn.com that is causing trouble.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Has this ever worked in non-Firefox branded builds? IIRC CNN does UA detection. Does switching the UA with useragent switcher help?

Comment 5

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

My guess is it probably is a UA issue - I have seen quite a bit of this running on the trunk with various sites - Bug 451075 is one example.

Comment 6

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

I confirm, its a site issue detecting UA.  I installed user agent switcher and added Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1.    CNN video works great.