544410 - [OOPP] Many Facebook applications (flash plug-in) broken on 2010-02-04 nightly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Many facebook applications are completely broken with today;s nightly.

This includes, Mafia Wars, Cafe World and Happy Aquarium, among others.

THese application run normally with earlier builds and also with this failing nightly as long as you set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false.

I used hg bisect and identified the offending checkin as:

The first bad revision is:
changeset:   37861:62cc92f9dced
user:        Benjamin Smedberg <[e-mail]>
date:        Wed Feb 03 17:17:09 2010 -0500
summary:     Bug 516515 - Don't initialize XPCOM in plugin processes, r=cjones

Comment 1

[Chris Jones [:cjones] inactive; ni?/f?/r? if you need me]

Bill, was this on all platforms, or just on Windows?  We know of bug 544361, the fix for which just landed and will be in tomorrow's nightlies.

Comment 2

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Bill, was this on all platforms, or just on Windows?  We know of bug 544361,
> the fix for which just landed and will be in tomorrow's nightlies.

Windows and Linux at least.  Don't know about MAC.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Is there a public (non-FB) site to reproduce this on? The only FB flash app I have access to is farmville, and that appears to work correctly.

Comment 4

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Resolving this as WORKSFORME.  Something must have been changed on the Facebook side of things to fix this.  All of the Applications that would only work with ipc disabled yesterday and earlier today seem to work just fine now.  Same build, same laptop, same facebook username, same everything.  So the problem has just mysteriously vanished.