908017 - "Allow now" behaves the same way as "Allow and remember" for Flash plugin

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 886792

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[gdevitis]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130819170952

Steps to reproduce:

1) in about:permissions the "plugin" option is on "always ask"
2) in "addon"->"plugin", flash plugin is on "ask to activate".
3) Open a youtube video and click on "activate adobe flash"


Actual results:

in Firefox 24 Beta 4, the result is that appear near the navigation toolbar two buttons "allow now" and "allow and remember". i choose the first. When i click on another youtube video, the plugin is activated yet, the video plays without asking to activate. In other words, click to play blocks only one time a plugin for each website.


Expected results:

in Firefox 23, the result is that the video plays but when i change video, clicking on another youtube video, click to play asks me to activate the plugin all the time.
In my opinion, this is the good way that click to play has to work.

Comment 1

[Maria Grazia Alastra [:mga]]

Confirmed on Windows 7 x64 bits with Firefox 24 Beta 4, User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0, Build ID 20130822154523, using a clean profile.

Updated steps to reproduce: 

1) in about:permissions set the "plugin" option on "Always Ask";

2) in "addon"->"plugin", set the Flash plugin on "Ask to Activate";

3) Open a Youtube video and click on "Activate Adobe Flash" and then click on "Allow now";

4) Open another Youtube video (clicking on a related video or searching for another video in a new tab doesn't change the behaviour);

5) Go to another video hosting website, like Vimeo, and repeat steps 3 and 4 with the videos from this website;

6) Both on Youtube and Vimeo click on the grey brick in the url bar and select "Block Plugin";

7) Repeat from step 3 to 5, but replacing "Allow and Remember" with "Allow now".


Actual results:

"Allow now" and "Allow and Remember" have the same behaviour: after one of them is selected, every video on that website gets played without asking for user permission anymore; it only asks for permission if the video is on another website (and if it's granted then all the videos from the new website can be played without any further permission asking, too).

Expected results:

As the reporter said, in Firefox 23 selecting "Allow now" would grant the permission only for the video that the user was currently playing. In general, "Allow now" and "Allow and remember" should behave differently from each other.

Thanks for the bug report!

Comment 2

[Maria Grazia Alastra [:mga]]

Apparently this behaviour with click-to-play is intended, and this is a duplicate of bug 886792. 

However it still seems strange to me that "Allow now" and "Allow and Remember" seem to work the same way, at least in this case, but if it's a real issue it should probably pointed out in a new bug. Maybe I'll talk to developers.

Thanks anyway for the report!

Comment 3

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

(In reply to Maria Grazia Alastra [:mga] from comment #2)
> However it still seems strange to me that "Allow now" and "Allow and
> Remember" seem to work the same way
They don't. 'Allow now' remembers allowing just until the browser restarts.