622856 - Flash player doesn't work properly on firefox 4

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[martindrummer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:2.0b8) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:2.0b8) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b8

firefox 4 on macosx 10.5.8 has problems with flash. Flash player on zshare (e.g.:  http://www.zshare.net/video/588484181ee31d77) doesn't work. On apple safari the player works fine, so it's a macosx-flash-firefox problem. Already tried safe mode to no avail. I'm using the latest flash player version

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open the url (http://www.zshare.net/video/588484181ee31d77)
2. click on "close to play"
3. wait for the video to open-load (never happens) 
Actual Results:  
once you click on "close to play" (allow few seconds for this to show up) the player won't load the video (it's not a buffering-connection problem). On safari the player works fine, so it's a macosx-flash-firefox problem. Already tried firefox safe mode to no avail. Already reported on firefox support forums they told me to report it here. I'm using the latest flash player version

Expected Results:  
the video should start playing (as it does on Apple Safari browser)

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>I'm using the latest flash player version
Please always include the version number, "latest" is to unspecific.

Do you use a 64 bit or 32 bit os ?

You would have found your own bug report with the same URL if you did a search for existing reports as required.

Comment 4

[Josh Aas]

A shot in the dark - bug 622667 may be responsible for wonky loading though I haven't looked into it much yet. It was preventing Flash from loading in my heavily-patched tree at one point, the patch on bug 475991 has a fix for it.

Comment 5

[martindrummer]

Thank you for the support. Can you please explain how to apply the patch you suggested so i can resolve this problem? Hopefully this issue will be resolved in next releases of firefox... (btw i filed a bug report also on the adobe website...i'll let you know what they say)

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Can you please explain how to apply the patch you suggested

You'd have to compile Firefox yourself.  I can point you to the instructions for that if you want, or you could wait for the fix for bug 475991 to be checked in.

Comment 7

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Martin: Are you using Version: 10.1.102.64 of Flash?

Comment 8

[martindrummer]

(In reply to comment #6)
> > Can you please explain how to apply the patch you suggested
> 
> You'd have to compile Firefox yourself.  I can point you to the instructions
> for that if you want, or you could wait for the fix for bug 475991 to be
> checked in.

If you please can point me to the instructions i can try to compile it myself. Anyhow, if I fail,  i can always wait for the fix ;) (hopefully not too long)

(In reply to comment #7)
> Martin: Are you using Version: 10.1.102.64 of Flash?

Yep! The latest available for mac

btw: thanks for the support guys!

Comment 9

[martindrummer]

(In reply to comment #1)

> Do you use a 64 bit or 32 bit os ?
 I use 32bit os (macosx 10.5.8)

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> If you please can point me to the instructions i can try to compile it myself.

They should be at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Build_Documentation once it comes back to life....

Comment 11

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This is btw wfm with SM trunk and flash 10.1 r102 on win32.
marking new because requesting blocking doesn't make sense on unconfirmed bugs :-)

Comment 12

[martindrummer]

(In reply to comment #10)
> > If you please can point me to the instructions i can try to compile it myself.
> 
> They should be at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Build_Documentation once it
> comes back to life....

thanks for the info!

(In reply to comment #11)
> This is btw wfm with SM trunk and flash 10.1 r102 on win32.
> marking new because requesting blocking doesn't make sense on unconfirmed bugs
> :-)

ok! i suppose it works for you because you're using win.. Seems to be an issue related to mac machines-os xD lucky you! :)

Comment 13

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I haven't seen lots of input.mozilla.org indications of this, and it definitely WFM on 10.5.8, so I'm going to flip this back to UNCO and clear the nomination for now. Please renominate if new data/secondary confirmation indicates this is more serious.

Comment 14

[martindrummer]

(In reply to comment #13)
> I haven't seen lots of input.mozilla.org indications of this, and it definitely
> WFM on 10.5.8, so I'm going to flip this back to UNCO and clear the nomination
> for now. Please renominate if new data/secondary confirmation indicates this is
> more serious.

Does it start working just after "applying" the fix for bug475991? Btw are you using ff4beta version8? Moreover, i know we're talking about ff4, but does this sill work on ff3.6.13 (last official release) without applying fix for bug475991?
thank for the support btw!

Comment 15

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Do you still see this issue with the current version of Firefox?

Comment 16

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Resolving old bugs which are likely not relevant any more, since NPAPI plugins are deprecated.