705866 - Albums don't play on bandcamp

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
 1. Load URL ( http://thewhitepanda.bandcamp.com/album/pandamonium )
 2. Click the "play" button

EXPECTED RESULTS:
 (a) At initial pageload, track name / time should appear over progress scrubber, to right of play button. ("Teach Me How To Funk   00:00/01:34"

 (b) After clicking "play" button, it should briefly change to a throbber and then the track should start playing.

ACTUAL RESULTS:
 - no text above progress scrubber
 - nothing happens when I click "play" button

MOZILLA-CENTRAL REGRESSION RANGE
================================
Last good nightly: 2011-06-24
First bad nightly: 2011-06-25
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=e0b805cab438&tochange=ce10fd5d82c6

MOZILLA-INBOUND REGRESSION RANGE
================================
Last good nightly: 2011-06-23
First bad nightly: 2011-06-24
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=49932c605933&tochange=58f8e32a9faf

I'm pretty sure bandcamp uses flash to play its audio, so I'm filing this under "Plugins".  In the above pushlogs, bug 653083 looks most plugin-related -- tentatively flagging as regression from that bug.

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 x86_64, btw.

User-agent string of first bad nightly:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110625 Firefox/7.0a1

Bug persists in latest nightly, too:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0a1) Gecko/20111128 Firefox/11.0a1

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Is there anything in the error console? Does this reproduce on Windows or mac? Does the site work if you set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false?

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

WFM on Windows 7 with Flash 11.1.102.55.

Also WFM on Linux 64-bit with Flash 10.2 d161

Comment 4

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

WFM on a different 32-bit machine, running Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit with Flash 11.1 r102

Comment 5

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Also WFM on my 64-bit Laptop running Ubuntu 11.04, with Flash 11.0 r1
I wonder what's special about the machine I reported this from (my work desktop). Investigating more...

Comment 6

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

My work desktop (where I can repro this) is running Flash 11.1 r102, FWIW.

(In reply to Benjamin Smedberg  [:bsmedberg] from comment #2)
> Is there anything in the error console?

Nothing plugin-related.  Just a bunch of CSS-related complaints for other-browser-specific style, followed by "Error: uncaught exception: Error: Permission denied for <http://www.facebook.com> to get property Proxy.InstallTrigger"

> Does the site work if you set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false?

Yes, that fixes it.

Comment 7

[ldelettre]

Same problem here.
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false fix the problem.
ubuntu 11.10 64bit Flash 11.1 r102 firefox 8.0

Comment 8

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] from comment #5)
> Also WFM on my 64-bit Laptop running Ubuntu 11.04, with Flash 11.0 r1

Aha -- that laptop was running a one-off version of Flash that I downloaded myself and installed to ~/.mozilla/plugins.

I've replaced that with the Ubuntu "flashplugin-installer" package (w/ package version '11.0.1.152ubuntu1' which translates to Flash 11.1 r102 in about:plugins), and now I can reproduce on that laptop, too.

Comment 9

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Did some targeted builds for further isolation of the problem cset.

WORKS:  https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/68a835e72bfd
BROKEN: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5f35f2648169

So this was regressed by:
5f35f2648169	Benjamin Smedberg — Bug 653083 - Deal with NPRuntime identifier which may be non-interned being passed across the process boundary, and the current cache which isn't aware of that problem. r=bent,cdleary

Comment 10

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to Benjamin Smedberg  [:bsmedberg] from comment #3)
> WFM on Windows 7 with Flash 11.1.102.55.
(same here)

Comment 11

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(Clearing 'qawanted' keyword from comment 2, since the questions in that comment have all been answered, in comment 6 & comment 3.)

Comment 12

[Chris Smowton]

I have the same problem: with out-of-process plugins enabled, Bandcamp fails in the same way dholbert described; with them disabled it works as expected. Flash version as reported by dpkg -s flashplugin-installer is 11.1.102.55ubuntu0.11.10.1, Firefox is Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0, both the versions used by an up-to-date Ubuntu 11.10 install.

Comment 13

[Benjamin Smedberg]

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