711729 - Vimeo "Switch to HTML5" link missing

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[uTest]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2

Steps to reproduce:

Navigated to http://vimeo.com/33390344 and noted a missing link in Firefox browsers

Exists in Beta (Y/N):  Yes
Exists in Aurora (Y/N):  Yes
Exists in Nightly (Y/N): Yes
Exists in other browsers (Y/N): No 
Does it occur in safe mode? Yes
Does it occur with a clean profile? Yes

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install and launch any of the Firefox Beta versions (Nightly used in screenshot) 
2. Navigate to http://vimeo.com/33390344 in Chrome or other HTML 5 browser
3. Scroll down to the bottom of the video description
4. Note the "Switch to HTML 5 player" link
5. Navigate to the same URL with Firefox
6. Repeat steps 3 and 4 in Firefox
7. Observe


Actual results:

There is no "Switch to HTML 5 player" link present in Firefox. It is presented in Chrome.


Expected results:

As Firefox is an HTML 5 compliant browser, this link should be present.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Vimeo does not provide webm <video>.