56120 - Page content not displayed on Mac

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P1)

Description

[Chris Petersen]

Build: 2000-10-10-10-MN6
Platform: Mac
Expected result: Page should display it's content (embedded flash object)
What I got: A empty page is displayed. The browser window has activated the
horizontal scroll bars even though no conetent is visible.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Go to http://www.subaru.com/intro.html

2) Page loads but is blank.

3) You must resize the window for content to appear.

Comment 1

[Chris Petersen]

From my research, I was able to find which build introduces the problem:
Last build the page works in: (2000-10-05-13-MN6)
The very next branch build, the problem appears:
(2000-10-06-13-MN6 build)

Comment 2

[harishd]

Giving 5 of clayton's bugs to Joki for triage.

Comment 3

[Peter Lubczynski]

Adding regression keyword

Looking at CVS log of nsObjectFrame.cpp, Vishy checked in a fix on the 5th. 
CC:ing him.

Comment 4

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

My fix to nsObjectFrame.cpp only went into the Shrimp_BRANCH and trunk not the
Netscape_20000922_BRANCH so it could not have caused this bug which appeared in
the 20000922 branch.

Vishy

Comment 5

[Peter Lubczynski]

Okay, I've found out that this only happens with new profile. That's why I
wasn't seeing it on my builds. Seems to be okay with an old profile.

The markup is pretty simple, so it's strange that this is happening and it used
to work.

CC:ing ekrock so this bug doesn't fall off the radar

Comment 6

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

qawanted, 4xp, pp. P1 because high profile partner (Flash) and backward 
compatibility (Flash is #2 most important plug-in on the web). We need more 
analysis to produce a simplified testcase to determine whether this is an edge 
case (something strange about that page not common to others) or a single 
instance of a general problem that will affect many pages.

Troy, can MM staff lend a hand with analyzing this?

Comment 7

[Troy Evans]

Works fine for me... Execept for one thing.. If you try to control
click(Right-click) to get the flash controls they don't show up, you only
get the HTML popup... Definitely a universal bug, it happens with all Flash
content, not just this page.

Comment 8

[Peter Lubczynski]

Troy,

The context menu fix has been landed in our "trunk" builds yesterday. If you get 
the latest nightly of Mozilla you should see this fix. 

Also, this problem doesn't show up unless you create a fresh profile. Could you 
try this again with the latest build and create a fresh profile in the Profile 
Manager. 

Thanks.

Comment 9

[Peter Lubczynski]

Ahhh...I'm thinking this could be a cache issue. I went back to the page, saw it
was layed out incorrectly, went to another page, cleared my cache, went back and
it was okay. Tried this on another computer Mac and it worked as well.

CC:ing gagan 

Comment 10

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

We believe this is fixed. Could someone please verify? Marking verifyme.

Comment 11

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Using Netscape 6.0 on Windows NT I do not see any problems with the site. Also I
get the Flash menus on right click. Marking WORKSFORME.

Comment 12

[Chris Petersen]

I'm still able to reproduce this problem on the latest mac build (12/29). This 
appears to be a MAC only issue.

Steps

1) Create a new profile.

2) Go to http://www.subaru.com/intro.html.

3) Page is empty. 

4) Resize or reload the page.

5) The flash content appears.

Comment 13

[Chris Petersen]

Attachment: A blank window is displayed

Comment 14

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

This is not joki's bug... Peter?

Comment 15

[Peter Lubczynski]

This is really weird. I can't reproduce in the debugger. Chris and I tried to 
reproduce locally by adding a <BASE> tag, but then we can't reproduce. I was 
thinking it could be something with the server handing back garbage to the 
plugin, but I watched the HTTP session and nothing obvious.  Happens in Composer 
too. If you resize the window or reload, it displays correctly.

I'm starting a fresh pull and build to see if somehow I can get it to happen in 
the debugger so I can dump the frames. CC:ing some Mac engineers as well.

Comment 16

[shrirang khanzode]

this is working on the 0108 trunk and 0108 branch for me. I do not see any blank 
content upon initial loading of the page. The movie appears fine.

Comment 17

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Flash crasher or backward incompatibility bug. Nominating for nsbeta1 as
high-quality plug-in support is a priority for embedded applications.

Comment 18

[Peter Lubczynski]

I can't reproduce this bug either on my machine. If someone could come up with a 
simplified testcase or specific steps to reproduce, I'd be happy to fix.

Comment 19

[Peter Lubczynski]

I'm marking this WORKSFORME as niether Shrir or me can reproduce.

Comment 20

[Chris Petersen]

This site has been redesigned so the original issue is no longer occuring.
Marking verified worksforme.