94459 - Macromedia says OS X Flash Player is IE only

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

On its player download page
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/main.html Macromedia
says that the Mac OS X version of Flash Player is for IE only. However, the
player works with Mozilla, too.

Comment 1

[Troy Evans]

Until there is a official release of the Mozilla/Netscape for OSX, we will not 
officially support that browser.

Comment 2

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Mozilla for Mac OS X is not less official than Mozilla for Solaris for example.
Netscape 6.1 is a "Preview" on Mac OS X but so is IE.

Comment 3

[Troy Evans]

THe difference I am looking is actually 
Netscape 6.1 and IE 5.1 have been made publicly available by the respect 
compaies, there has being a committment to release publicly.

Other than simply - go to Mozilla and download the latest build.

If you where to publicly release a preview to the public sure I would be happy 
to add Mozilla/Netscape as supporting Flash Player on OS X

troy

Comment 4

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Perhaps you can configure your servers to allow Mozilla on OS X to be 
admitted to download Flash, but with a warning that it is not supported. 
That way, you don't have to deal with "it doesn't work" when Mozilla is 
broken, and we don't have to deal with "I can't use flash" when it does 
work.

Comment 5

[Troy Evans]

We also provide a back door for people to download the flash player you can get 
the player from here
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/

Even though it's says it only supports IE, - it is still just a plug-in 
supporting the BRPL mime type, thus it will run in other browsers.

I still recommend you all releasing a public preview release, before we support 
it officially

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> Arun

Comment 8

[Steve Dagley]

Um, the Netscape 6.1 Technology Preview for Mac OS X _is_ public and available 
for download from the main Netscape site at <http://home.netscape.com/browsers/6/
sysreq.html#note?cp=djuosx>.  Doesn't this meet the requirements for 'official' 
support from Macromdeia?

Comment 9

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

plugins

Comment 10

[J Luh]

The Macromedia Flash download page now says the Mac OS X Flash Player is
compatible with Netscape 6.2 or later. When you go to
http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/ and click on Macromedia Flash Player using
Mozilla 2002010709 on Mac OS X, you are correctly directed to the download page
for the Mac OS X Flash player.

This bug should probably be marked "works for me" or "fixed".

Comment 11

[Steve Dagley]

Yep, it's FIXED

Comment 12

[Brant Gurganus]

Verified
2002040303/WinXP

Comment 13

[Nick Bebout]

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