856093 - Sound Preview not working on http://www.thai-language.com/id/4193

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 799318

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Swarnava Sengupta (:Swarnava)]

Loading the following page into either IE or Firefox results in a page with speaker icons. Clicking on the speaker icons in IE results in the word being played through the PC speakers in IE, but results in nothing in Firefox.

http://www.thai-language.com/id/4193 

Related Discussion:- https://support.mozilla.org/questions/954838

Comment 1

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Clicking a speaker icon runs some JS that creates an <object> with width and height 0px elsewhere on the page.  The <object>'s data attribute is the relative URL of an mp3, and it has autoplay=true and autostart=1 <params>.

I can't reproduce on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130329 Firefox/22.0.

Comment 2

[cajbir (:cajbir)]

<object> is plugins so I've changed the component to that. Audio/Video is used for HTML audio/video elements. If the problem is indeed <audio> and <video> usage, please change back.

Comment 3

[John Schoenick [:johns]]

So <object data="file.mp3"> will try and load the .mp3 with either a plugin or built-in handlers (which would be nearly equivalent to <iframe src="file.mp3">)

Users with some plugin (WMP, maybe Quicktime / Gecko-Mediaplayer?) that handles mp3 would get sound, and users on a recently nightly with WMF enabled where we can play MP3 natively would get sound (or a linux build with --enable-gstreamer), but normal release users without a specific plugin would not (whereas IE would play MP3 natively, without a plugin).

So I would say this is either INVALID or a dupe of bug 832754

Comment 4

[John Schoenick [:johns]]

(In reply to John Schoenick [:johns] from comment #3)
> So I would say this is either INVALID or a dupe of bug 832754

Sorry that should be bug 799318

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Is this a regression in a new version of Firefox, or has it always been like thi?

Comment 6

[Swarnava Sengupta (:Swarnava)]

I can reproduce this with Firefox mobile 19.0 too

Comment 7

[Benjamin Smedberg]

That doesn't really answer the question, though: did this work in any prior version of Firefox? As far as I can tell, this appears to be a website issue, not a Mozilla bug.

Comment 8

[John Schoenick [:johns]]

The bug here would be that Firefox doesn't support MP3, so let's just call it a dupe of 799318