781250 - Flash click_to_play does not start Flash

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 779662

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Bruce]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20120807030518

Steps to reproduce:

Flash click_to_play does not start flash.
Windows Vista SP2
Firefox 17 Nightly Aug 8, 2012
Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1bbc0b65dffb

http://screen.yahoo.com/episode-12-how-to-survive-a-bear-attack-30201350.html

With click_to_play set false, FlashBlock on - The video will display the circle F and clicking the circle F will start the video.

With click_to_play set false, FlashBlock Off the video will play

With click_to_play set true, FlashBlock on or off the the video will display "Click to activate plugin".  Video does not ever start.


Actual results:

Video did not start


Expected results:

Video should play

Comment 1

[Bruce]

Just discovered the pointer/finger changes on the test "Click to activate plugin". Clicking the text will NOT start the video.

If you click the camera it will start the video but the pointer is not a finger - just the standard arrowhead pointer.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0 SeaMonkey/2.14a1
Build identifier: 20120808003004

Comment 3

[Dana Keeler (she/her) [:keeler]]

The issue with clicking the text not working is fixed with bug 779662 (which is inbound, and will hopefully land on central tomorrow).

Other than that, it's not clear to me what the bug is - is the issue that you have to click twice? (once for flashblock and once more for click-to-play) Or, even if you click twice (not on the text), does it still not work?

Comment 4

[Bruce]

David,

Sorry if I mislead anyone.  Your questions is accurate but I dont feel that it is a bug.  Clicking the circle F and then click_to_play should not be combined.  Each serves its own function and is controllable by the user.   We can turn off Flashblock or set click_to_play false.  Then each operation works as it should.

If the text or camera will launch Flash lands tomorrow this can be marked fixed.

Thank you.

Comment 5

[Bruce]

Confirmed with build:

Nightly: 08102012 firefox-17.0a1.en-US.win32.installer.exe
Changeset:  4e150530c925

Clicking the Camera or the text will launch Java and Flash Player for videos.

Thanks and good job.