617873 - Silverlight plugins don't work/load/render (netflix movie viewer, silverlight.net videos)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 598406

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Bug 522957 was for Netflix incorrectly looking for "Firefox" in the useragent, but now that the betas are reporting it, the actual page can now load, but the plugin doesn't work.

http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/site/http/netflix.com

This shows up as a message on Netflix showing:

Thanks for installing
Once installation is complete please restart your browser to watch this movie.

A similar message shows up on silverlight.net videos:

http://www.silverlight.net/learn/videos/windows-phone/creating-a-custom-popup-in-windows-phone-7/

Install Microsoft Silverlight for a better experience on this site.

These are the fallback content showing through the plugin because it's failing to load/render.

A page that has just the plugin looks blank:

http://www.preraphaelites.org/personal-collections/zoom/37/exceptional-colour/

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

It seems like silverlight plugins haven't been working since September in a number of ways.


0926 ok http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/2370ecfdcbb7
0927 bad http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6272ce1da6f5

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=2370ecfdcbb7&tochange=6272ce1da6f5

It goes from working to not loading the plugin (like the recent nightlies)
bug 571367 for switching to x64 universal binaries ?


0927 bad http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6272ce1da6f5
0928 ball http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c257bfb8cad0

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=6272ce1da6f5&tochange=c257bfb8cad0

And from not loading to beach balling for ~20 seconds?
bug 596762? differing IPC preferences


1014 ball http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ad0a0be8be74
1015 bad http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/19cb42fa4554

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=ad0a0be8be74&tochange=19cb42fa4554

And then back to the current state of things where the plugin seems to not load.
bug 586584 x64 OOPP testing


Just to note, I've been testing with silverlight 4.0.50917.0