781662 - Plugin Click To Play Broken

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 782644

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Jim]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20120809030541

Steps to reproduce:

Set plugins.click_to_play to true, visit Youtube.



Actual results:

Flash video player is still loading. Some sites are blocked properly but most are not.


Expected results:

I should have to click on the flash to allow it to play.

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

See bug 779320 comment 9.

Comment 2

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

I think we need a bit more information on this one. Jim - do you have links to specific videos where click-to-play isn't working? One thing that might be going on is YouTube uses the html5 video tag for some of their videos, meaning the flash plugin isn't used and thus the video automatically plays on those pages.

Comment 3

[Jim]

(In reply to David Keeler from comment #2)
> I think we need a bit more information on this one. Jim - do you have links
> to specific videos where click-to-play isn't working? One thing that might
> be going on is YouTube uses the html5 video tag for some of their videos,
> meaning the flash plugin isn't used and thus the video automatically plays
> on those pages.

I checked for the HTML5 issue before reporting since I have had that happen in Opera before.

For me it happens on all Youtube videos and on half of the other Flash videos I encounter. I also notice that Youtube videos continue to play after the tab is closed now.

Comment 4

[Jim]

(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #1)
> See bug 779320 comment 9.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 779320 ***

That is a completely different problem.

Comment 5

[Jim]

(In reply to David Keeler from comment #2)
> I think we need a bit more information on this one. Jim - do you have links
> to specific videos where click-to-play isn't working? One thing that might
> be going on is YouTube uses the html5 video tag for some of their videos,
> meaning the flash plugin isn't used and thus the video automatically plays
> on those pages.

This Url loads right away, the Flashblock extension is able to block it, and also makes click to play work. But if you disable flashblock it just loads right away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfHWV_-X3a8

Comment 6

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

Based on your build id, it looks like you're using a Nightly from about a week ago, which is when a similar bug popped up and then was fixed - if you update to the latest version, do you get the same behavior?

Comment 7

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

Another idea - try disabling add-ons. There was another bug that involved certain types of add-ons causing plugins to be activated prematurely.

Comment 8

[Jim]

(In reply to David Keeler from comment #6)
> Based on your build id, it looks like you're using a Nightly from about a
> week ago, which is when a similar bug popped up and then was fixed - if you
> update to the latest version, do you get the same behavior?

That was because I submitted the bug a week ago, it got fixed a few days ago. So all is good now.