714560 - Photo galleries and video pop-ups are broken on WashingtonPost.com

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Loic]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1
Build ID: 20111220165912

Steps to reproduce:

STR:
1) Open http://www.washingtonpost.com/
2) Find section "Featured Videos" on the main page (middle area)
3) Click on a video thumbnail, e.g. "Lady Gaga, Bloomberg dance as Times Square revelers cheer 2012"


Actual results:

Clicking on the video thumbnail brings to the underlying link http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/lady-gaga-bloomberg-dance-as-times-square-revelers-cheer-2012/2012/01/01/gIQAssWHUP_modal.html then eventually to http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/lady-gaga-bloomberg-dance-as-times-square-revelers-cheer-2012/2012/01/01/gIQAssWHUP_video.html but doesn't display the video (Flash) in a pop-up centered on black overlay in the background.

In addition, the page switching function < > of the right video panel doesn't work if you go back to the main page after clicking on the video thumbnail (e.g. back to main page from http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/lady-gaga-bloomberg-dance-as-times-square-revelers-cheer-2012/2012/01/01/gIQAssWHUP_modal.html).

NB: You can test with the section "Featured Photo Galleries", similar issue. Click on a gallery, the slide show never appears and stays gray and empty.

It's broken in Firefox 9 and higher.


Expected results:

Firefox should display the video pop-up and run the Flash stream (see attachments).

Comment 1

[Loic]

Attachment: washingtonpost.com_featured_videos_firefox_8.0.1

Comment 2

[Loic]

Attachment: washingtonpost.com_featured_videos_firefox_9.0.1

Comment 3

[Loic]

I used mozregression to find the regression, here the result:

m-c
Last good nightly: 2011-09-27
First bad nightly: 2011-09-28
Pushlog: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=1f800c226837&tochange=7f4867717226

m-i
Last good nightly: 2011-09-26
First bad nightly: 2011-09-27
Pushlog: http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=29f857ce7e31&tochange=80ff402f2f7e

It's the same range than in another regression, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713745#c9

Comment 4

[Alice0775 White]

Regression window(m-i)
Works:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/1227cb5bcd8b
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110926 Firefox/9.0a1 ID:20110926134318
Fails:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/c8e237c03adb
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110926 Firefox/9.0a1 ID:20110926142818
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=1227cb5bcd8b&tochange=c8e237c03adb

Suspected: Bug 185236

P.S. UA spoofing does not help.

Comment 5

[Alice0775 White]

(In reply to Alice0775 White from comment #4)
> P.S. UA spoofing does not help.

Sorry,I forgot Clear cache after changing UA.

The following UA spoofing helps.
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.107 Safari/534.13");

Comment 6

[Loic]

It's fixed in FF10, I close it.