482814 - Flash controls do not appear to work properly on many pages in Minefield

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090212 Minefield/3.2a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090212 Minefield/3.2a1pre

Flash controls do not work properly on many pages in the latest minefield, for example on pandora.com, I can not interact with the site at all, which is entirely controlled through flash.  Another page where this fails is http://i.gizmodo.com/5168295/diy-pistol-shoots-out-blocks-so-you-can-win-at-jenga-every-time?autoplay=true

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to www.pandora.com (preferably with an already established user profile)
2.  A song starts playing
3.  Can't pause the song, change channels, or interact with Pandora in any way.

This also affects many flash based video players.  For example, the flash based player at:

http://i.gizmodo.com/5168295/diy-pistol-shoots-out-blocks-so-you-can-win-at-jenga-every-time?autoplay=true

can not be paused, and no controls work.
Actual Results:  
Many flash based sites play, but no controls work in the latest minefied

Expected Results:  
controls on flash sites should work

Note: although I have adblock plus installed, I have tried disabling the plugin and get the same result.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Which version of Flash are you using? The link plays fine for me using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090311 Minefield/3.2a1pre with Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12. Looks as if you are using an old build so I would recommend updating to the latest nightly and trying again.

Comment 2

[Michael]

I'm using flash version 10.0.22.87, which is the very latest version available from Adobe.  I'm still using using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090212 Minefield/3.2a1pre, but now both links are working.  This has happened to me previously (reported in a bug a few weeks or months ago, but I can't find that one now.)...

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

you mean bug 470740.
Can you try the safemode and a new profile ?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 4

[Michael]

I got the same error on the following web page:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVssa9LkCbM

Like Pandora, this is a page with Flash with controls that simply don't work at random.

Restarting in safe mode, I did not get the error.

Restarting in regular mode, I did not get the error.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, have not been changed for 500 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or later, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the issue, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the status to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.