809858 - Click to play overlay not working on paypal.com

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Firefox 17 beta 5 (20121106195758) Flash 11.5

STR:
1. Activate click to play and restart Firefox.
2. Load https://www.paypal-promo.com/onewaytopay/regular.html in the browser.

Actual Results:
The overlay for enabling the video appears, but after clicking it the video doesn't start playing. 

Expected:
After clicking the overlay for enabling the video, the video should start playing.

Comment 1

[u279076]

The overlay is actually a bit different on this element compared to other elements. I'll attach a screenshot after.

Here is the source of the element:
<object style="visibility: visible;" data="https://areatech.hs.llnwd.net/e1/paypal/onewaytopayv3/video_player.swf" id="flash-container-0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="552" width="978"><param value="high" name="quality"><param value="always" name="AllowScriptAccess"><param value="opaque" name="wmode"><param value="vidURL=https://areatech.hs.llnwd.net/e1/paypal/onewaytopayv3/videos/multifund-video.flv" name="flashvars"></object>

Comment 2

[u279076]

Attachment: Screenshot

This screenshot shows the overlay comparison between a Flash ad on Youtube and the video on PayPal. As with Manuela, I'm unable to click-to-play the video on PayPal

Comment 3

[u279076]

Additionally, clicking the "check for updates" link simply reloads the page.

Comment 4

[u279076]

Checking error console, when the click-to-play overlay loads on paypal.com I see the following:

TypeError: linkNode is null
chrome://browser/content/browser.js (line: 3066)

Comment 5

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

It's a good bet that bug 800018 will fix this.

Comment 6

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

This works fine in 18 and Nightly for me now.