620153 - Minefield, as of Dec 18, 2010, Silverlight [netflix] plugin not functional

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 598406

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Timothy Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20101218 Firefox/4.0b9pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20101218 Firefox/4.0b9pre

I'm trying to use silverlight with Minefield to watch Netflix.  This is specifically the page I'm trying to use:

http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70141114&trkid=2430625

And this is what it always says on the screen (with a sortof bluish background):

Thanks for installing

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


If I quit Minefield and restart in the latest stable Firefox release, the Netflix viewer loads just fine.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Could you see if the issue occurs with a new, empty profile:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting#w_make-a-new-profile

Comment 2

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20101219 Firefox/4.0b9pre
ID:20101219030346

If you go to about:plugins do you see the Silverlight Plug-In listed? What
version is listed?

Comment 3

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Bump for comment 1 and comment 2 - thanks!

Comment 4

[Timothy Miller]

Sorry, I keep forgetting to do this.  I'll get to it!

Comment 5

[Timothy Miller]

I tried it on a different computer with a new user account.  Still doesn't work.  Looks like silverlight is really broken in Minefield.

Comment 6

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

I think this is an OSX issue, starting from when the Minefield build became 64bit compatible.

I am able to reproduce this; when I want to watch streaming Netflix, I need to open a 3.6.x browser.  I think a 4.0 beta 4 browser works as well.