58644 - macromedia.com - Clicking OK on default plugin dialog opens up garbled up page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Description

[shrirang khanzode]

Build:20001030 candidate, linux
Default plugin present

Steps :

1. Launch the browser
2. Visit the above mentioned url
3. Observe the default plugin dialog pop up asking you to downlaod the flash 
   plugin for linux
4. Clicking OK on the dialog opens up a new browser window with some garbled 
  text, like, repeated search textfield and an advertisement banner. The browser 
  seems to slow down.

Expected: Flash download page should pop up and user should be able to install 
fhasl player.

Comment 1

[shrirang khanzode]

keyword:rtm

Comment 2

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Rafael, could you please doublecheck the plug-in download page that's brought up
by this sequence and make sure there are no problems, particularly when viewed
on Linux? If there are any problems, could you fix the page's markup as neeeded?
If not, please close this as INVALID.

Shriran, it's spec for the plug-in downloader puzzle piece to refer you to a
generic page for all plug-ins (not a specific page for the plug-in you
need--that would definitely be better, but the default plug-in isn't that smart
yet; this would be a good enhancement request for the Future).

Marking [rtm-] as I don't think this is an RTM blocker either way.

Comment 3

[av (gone)]

The URL in question is
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Shockwave
Flash?application/x-shockwave-flash

Looks weird on 4.x on Windows too. I seriously doubt that Plugins is a right 
component. Some investigation of the page source is needed, to me it looks like 
nested frames referencing to themselves.

Comment 4

[karnaze (gone)]

Moving to evangelism and m1.0.

Comment 5

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

Changing URL, adding shockwave keyword, removing rtm- status whiteboard.
cc:Arun and removing av

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Rafeal, any reason not to give this to Arun? Bob

Comment 8

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

Reassigning to Arun

Comment 9

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> Plugin

Comment 10

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

lookes fixed - isn't it?

Comment 11

[Brant Gurganus]

I get "We are unable to locate a single Web player that best matches your
platform and operating system.", but that might be due to using a daily build.

Comment 12

[Nick Bebout]

SPAM: New Components

Comment 13

[Brant Gurganus]

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