574105 - quicktime plugin not running in separate process in v3.6.4

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Gaurav Kumar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100611 Firefox/3.6.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100611 Firefox/3.6.4

I have file extension mp3 set to be handled by quicktime plugin to play sound within the firefox tab. It plays fine.
However, in the latest v3.6.4 the quicktime plugin should run in the separate process plugin-container.exe but it still runs in the firefo.exe process.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In options set .mp3 extension to be handled by quicktime and to play mp3s in-place
2. navigate to any mp3 url
To verify the bug either 
3a. open task manager of windows and end-task plugin-container.exe -> quicktime plugin is not ended
3b. in windows vista or windows 7 open volume mixer and verify that firefox process is outputting sound and not plugin-container
Actual Results:  
Quicktime plugin runs in the firefox.exe process.

Expected Results:  
Quicktime plugin should also be run in the plugin-container.exe process.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

It works for me (tested using <http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/facetime.html#facetime-video>, which is a video). If I kill plugin-container.exe, I see the sad face icon in place of the video.

There are problems like bug 559142, but that's on Mac.

Are you sure that the preference dom.ipc.plugins.enabled (in about:config) is set to true ? And are you sure it's the latest version of QuickTime ?

Comment 2

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

On 3.6.4 (despite to Trunk) OOPP is whitelisted, thus the default Prefs are/should be:
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled;false
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npctrl.dll;true
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npqtplugin.dll;true
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npswf32.dll;true

@Reporter: what Version of the Quicktime Plugin do you have installed?
Check it out per "Help"/"Troubleshooting Information"/"about:plugins".
It should be something like "QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.6".

Comment 3

[Gaurav Kumar]

I have the following Prefs:
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled;false
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npctrl.dll;true
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npqtplugin.dll;true
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npswf32.dll;true
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.nptest.dll;true


I have QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.6

Comment 4

[Gaurav Kumar]

(In reply to comment #1)
> It works for me (tested using
> <http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/facetime.html#facetime-video>, which is a
> video). If I kill plugin-container.exe, I see the sad face icon in place of the
> video.
> 
> There are problems like bug 559142, but that's on Mac.
> 
> Are you sure that the preference dom.ipc.plugins.enabled (in about:config) is
> set to true ? And are you sure it's the latest version of QuickTime ?

dom.ipc.plugins.enabled is set to false. The default value is also false. However, with the value false plugin-container.exe runs the flash plugin. Also the video on that page is also run in separate process.

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Are you sure that the preference dom.ipc.plugins.enabled (in about:config) is
> set to true ? 

That was my mistake. On Firefox 3.6.4 the default dom.ipc.plugins.enabled is indeed false, but dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npqtplugin.dll is true, as only Flash, Quicktime and SilverLight are currently using the separate process. On Firefox 3.6a6pre (which I'm mainly using) dom.ipc.plugins.enabled is true, and there are no separate settings per plugin.

Comment 6

[Gaurav Kumar]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Are you sure that the preference dom.ipc.plugins.enabled (in about:config) is
> > set to true ? 
> 
> That was my mistake. On Firefox 3.6.4 the default dom.ipc.plugins.enabled is
> indeed false, but dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npqtplugin.dll is true, as only
> Flash, Quicktime and SilverLight are currently using the separate process. On
> Firefox 3.6a6pre (which I'm mainly using) dom.ipc.plugins.enabled is true, and
> there are no separate settings per plugin.

If I set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to true then quicktime while playing mp3 files uses a separate process. Weird huh!

Comment 7

[Frankie]

RIP QuickTime for Windows