844358 - Nightly Metro App and Flash Player Youtube issue

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 738600

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[matt]

Attachment: flashneededfornightlymetroap.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130222 Firefox/22.0
Build ID: 20130222031133

Steps to reproduce:

I went to Youtube and it tells me that I need to download the Flash Player to view videos. This is happening ONLY in the METRO APP version of the Nightly browser. 


Actual results:

I clicked the link to download the Flash Player. It downloaded it, installed, and it still did not allow me to view youtube videos in the NIGHTLY METRO APP. 

SOME VIDEOS WILL PLAY! That is the weird thing. SOME WILL WORK. But 95% of them wont. 


Expected results:

The Flash Player plug in should have installed or should have been incorporated into the Nightly Metro App for Windows 8. 

It's not. It doesn't work. The Flash Player plugin is simply designed for the desktop browser only and will not cross over to the Nightly Metro App.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

expected due to bug 789600 ?
The working videos should be html5 based ones

Comment 2

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Like the iPad, Metro Firefox doesn't support flash.

Comment 3

[matt]

So, the solution is to not use the Metro Firefox app for any website that contains video requiring Flash? I'm not using an iPad. The Metro App is my default browser in Windows 8 and when I open a link containing a video from another app that allows me to open in another page the video wont play. When I set the Internet Explorer as my default app Flash works fine. So what's up? Why am I using Metro Firefox?

Comment 4

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Unfortunately we don't have a version of the Flash plugin that works with Firefox in the Metro environment.  (Bug 789600 and bug 738600 have some of the technical details.)  Unless Adobe decides to work with us to make Flash compatible with Firefox for Metro, our hands are tied.  :(

Comment 5

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Note that Microsoft also disables most plugins in IE for Metro, and enables Flash only on sites that Microsoft has specifically tested:

http://gizmodo.com/5951215/ie10-metro-wont-run-flash-unless-your-site-is-on-a-microsoft-whitelist

Comment 6

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to matt from comment #3)
> So, the solution is to not use the Metro Firefox app for any website that
> contains video requiring Flash? I'm not using an iPad. The Metro App is my
> default browser in Windows 8 and when I open a link containing a video from
> another app that allows me to open in another page the video wont play. When
> I set the Internet Explorer as my default app Flash works fine. So what's
> up? Why am I using Metro Firefox?

We have an option on the app bar for opening web pages that might rely heavily on flash on the desktop. The hope here is that over time, web sites will simply phase flash out. It's buggy, has security issues, and isn't open. Because of these and the issue mbrubeck point out, in metro we've decided to not support plugins in general.

Comment 7

[matt]

Thanks, guys. That makes sense and I understand now. Plugins do suck.