580095 - 4.0b2pre not acknowledging Quicktime or requiring non-existent 64-bit Quicktime

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Mathew]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100714 Minefield/4.0b2pre
Build Identifier: Minefield/4.0b2pre

Tried to watch a Quicktime video and was denied being told to download it immediately.  Thinking it had somehow not transferred over properly from the old browser, not being sure how that worked; I then reinstalled it just to see if it would overcome some inherent bug.  This was not the case as it made no change whatsoever.  I then began thinking that this 64 bit browser may require a 64 bit Quicktime.  I had researched but there are no hints of such a thing existing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to watch a Quicktime Video
2. Fail
3. Fail again
Actual Results:  
Re-installation of Quicktime does not work.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds similar to bug 579235...

Comment 2

[Benoit Girard (:BenWa)]

This issue is different from bug 579235.

Firefox 64-bit currently only supports 64-bit plugins. I checked the binaries for my Quicktime plug-in and it only supports ppc and 32-bit.

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/QuickTime Plugin.plugin/Contents/MacOS> file QuickTime\ Plugin 
QuickTime Plugin: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
QuickTime Plugin (for architecture i386):	Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386
QuickTime Plugin (for architecture ppc7400):	Mach-O dynamically linked shared library ppc

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Mathew, 

what information leads you to believe this bug qualifies as "common-issue+" and conversion?

And does this still happen when using current version of firefox and quicktime?

Comment 4

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard