659090 - flash doesn't work on ted.com (works with every other page)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Peter Derecskei]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:5.0a2) Gecko/20110522 Firefox/5.0a2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:5.0a2) Gecko/20110522 Firefox/5.0a2

Important! This issue is aurora (firefox5) specific. I don't know about the beta.

I tried libflashplayer.so version 10.0 and 10.3
turned off every other extension and addon
deleted all the cookies (of this site)
with no effect whatsoever

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install aurora and flashplayer on your xfce linux machine
2.open aurora and get to ted.com
3.try playing a talk

Actual Results:  
the flash appliction on the main page remained blank white
on a page with a talk in it I got the flash player not istalled
message

Expected Results:  
on the main page should be a fancy display of the latest talks
on a talk page should be TED's own video player

Work flawlessly as in firefox4, etc.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

Works for me on Ubuntu10.04 GNOME2.30.2

Shockwave Flash
    File: libflashplayer.so
    Version: 
    Shockwave Flash 10.3 r181
Graphics
     GPU Accelerated Windows: 0/1

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/7d4b05121ada
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:5.0a2) Gecko/20110523 Firefox/5.0a2 ID:20110523042001

Comment 2

[George Carstoiu]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0

Works for me also.

Shockwave Flash

    File: libflashplayer.so
    Version: 
    Shockwave Flash 10.2 r153

Graphics
   Adapter DescriptionNVIDIA Corporation -- GeForce 210/PCI/SSE2Driver    
   Version3.3.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06

Comment 3

[George Carstoiu]

Peter, are you still able to observe this issue?

Comment 4

[Peter Derecskei]

This issue first arised when I swithced from ff4 to aurora. I am still able to observe it,even tho I have switched to beta since.

Comment 5

[Peter Derecskei]

Not with a fresh install. It's not a firefox bug after all.

Comment 6

[Peter Derecskei]

Somehow the firefox launch icon in my desktop causes firefox to start with some unknown set of settings (like it hides somewhere a copy of .mozilla that I cant delete). It must be specific to Linux Mint XFCE that I'm using.

Comment 7

[George Carstoiu]

Am I to understand from Comment 5 that you don't consider this to be a bug anymore? If so, please set the resolution accordingly.