491098 - please QA the Fastest Firefox phase 2 page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[John Slater]

Hey guys. Please QA the phase 2 version of the Fastest Firefox landing page. This is the version that will launch about a week after the 3.5 launch...the goal is to display the community compilation video that will be the result of the video submissions generated from phase 1.

A couple of caveats:
1. the three videos across the bottom are all copies of the same content for now
2. the main video is just a place-holder

More details at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.5/WebsitePlan/FastestFirefox.

Thanks!

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

[1] I don't have Flash installed in IE 6, and although I get the player controls, I'm (understandably) unable to play the video, but I get no error or "need to install Flash" message.

Page validates

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Attachment: Screenshot of inaccurate error message

[2] No-Flash-installed message claims, "video download links to the right"; we don't have download links for this page (at least not yet).

Comment 3

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> [2] No-Flash-installed message claims, "video download links to the right"; we
> don't have download links for this page (at least not yet).

Removed this line in r25333.

Comment 4

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> [1] I don't have Flash installed in IE 6, and although I get the player
> controls, I'm (understandably) unable to play the video, but I get no error or
> "need to install Flash" message.
Stephen - I'm not seeing this. What version of Flash is it?

Comment 5

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > [1] I don't have Flash installed in IE 6, and although I get the player
> > controls, I'm (understandably) unable to play the video, but I get no error or
> > "need to install Flash" message.
> Stephen - I'm not seeing this. What version of Flash is it?

In the VM image I have, Flash isn't installed -- at least, going to www.adobe.com/software/flash/about doesn't recognize it.

http://screencast.com/t/S3pK4CyVujR is a screencast

Comment 6

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> In the VM image I have, Flash isn't installed -- at least, going to
> www.adobe.com/software/flash/about doesn't recognize it.

Stephen, I'm wondering if there might be an older version of Flash installed. The play/progress-bar that is showing up there is only available from the flash plugin, so I'm thinking there must be some flash version there. 

If you go to Tools -> Manage Add Ons... does it show a Shockwave/Flash object? Thanks

Comment 7

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Did you watch the screencast?  The issue I have with the controls showing up but no Flash content playing seems limited to IE, as I mentioned in comment 1.

Comment 8

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

Stephen, yeah, I see how the controls are showing up - but that's what I'm confused about. Those controls are in a Flash file, so for them to show up at all, there must be some version of Flash installed, I think?

Comment 9

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Steven: ah, ok; probably just some weird IE thing (ships with some older version that Adobe.com no longer recognizes, or something?)

Anyway, I wouldn't block on that -- the few people still actively using IE 6 on Mozilla.com will probably have whatever the latest Flash version is for that platform anyway.

Comment 10

[John Slater]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Anyway, I wouldn't block on that -- the few people still actively using IE 6 on
> Mozilla.com will probably have whatever the latest Flash version is for that
> platform anyway.
Does this mean we're finished here? Can I boldly resolve it?

Comment 11

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

John: this looks good to go.

Steven: I figured out that XP has Flash 6 installed by default, so that's why the controls show up but yet the videos don't play (it's fine, of course in 8/9/10); I don't think people will still be using Flash 6, nor do I think we should block on that -- maybe we can revisit this later?

One final fix: s/Sunspider/SunSpider in the sidebar.

(Tested with IE 6/7/8 with Flash 10, Opera 9.64, Safari 3.2.2, Firefox 2.0.0.20, Firefox 3.0.10, Firefox 3.5 beta 4, nightlies, Google Chrome 1.0.154.65.)

Comment 12

[John Slater]

Great, thanks Stephen!

Steven G, can you make that final fix to the the SunSpider text? Once that's complete I'll resolve this one.

Comment 13

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

s/Sunspider/SunSpider in r25579.

Comment 14

[John Slater]

Will need to add the final video later, but that can be in a new bug. Resolving!

Comment 15

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

verified fixed  on https://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/fastest/