950445 - ACE Stream plugin won't start in Firefox 28

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P4)

Description

[Igor Mackeev]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131214004001

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to start an ace stream on http://torrent-tv.ru


Actual results:

Got a message "ACE Stream P2P Multimedia Plugin is not installed" and suggestion to install it.


Expected results:

Plugin IS installed and worked just fine on all previous versions of Aurora.
Streaming should have started!

Comment 1

[Ada [:adalucinet]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0

Reproduced with Aurora 28.0a2 (Build ID: 20131217004003): after I install Ace Stream P2P Multimedia Plug-in 2.1.9.0, the message "ACE Stream P2P Multimedia Plugin is not installed on your computer" is displayed and streaming doesn't start. Works with Chrome and Opera.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Caused somewhat intentionally by bug 757726:

This is the code at http://torrent-tv.ru/js/core.js:

            for (var i=0; i < navigator.plugins.length; i++) {
                    if(navigator.plugins[i].name.match(/Torrent Stream P2P Multimedia Plug-in 2/gim)) {
                        if(p === false) {
                            p = 3;
                        }
                    }
                    else if(navigator.plugins[i].name.match(/Torrent Stream P2P Multimedia Plug-in/gim)) {
                        if(p === false) {
                            p = 1;
                        }
                    }
                    else if(navigator.plugins[i].name.match(/ACE Stream P2P Multimedia Plug-in/gim)) {
                        p = 2;
                    }
                    else if(navigator.plugins[i].name.match(/ACE Stream Multimedia Plug-in/gim)) {
                        p = 4;
                    }
            }

The best solution would be for this site to stop enumerating navigator.plugins and instead check navigator.mimeTypes['mimeType'].

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Kohei, please don't move these bugs to TE until/unless we are sure that we aren't going to add the plugin to the in-product blocklist. TE is where bugs go to die and not be tracked.

Comment 4

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Sorry about that.

Comment 5

[bhavana bajaj [:bajaj]]

Switching the tracking flag from Firefox27->28 per bug description.

Comment 6

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

I tried pinging torrent-tv.ru on Twitter and their website's Contact form.

Do we have a better way to contact them?

Comment 7

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

That's a good start, let us know if you hear back from them, tracking to make sure we stay on top of this.

Comment 8

[Igor Mackeev]

I reported this problem to them the same day I posted it here. BTW, this affects all sites that provide ace streaming content.
The only reply I got so far was "We'll think about it when FF 28 is released."
Maybe you'll have more luck.

Comment 9

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

If we want to whitelist the ACE Stream video plugin, we will need to add the "ACE Stream" plugin name prefix to the `plugins.enumerable_names` pref. I do not think we should include the "Torrent Stream P2P Multimedia Plug-in" name because that is an older version of the same plugin.

That said, whitelisting plugins to fix a torrent website is not a high priority on my to-do list. :)

Comment 10

[Igor Mackeev]

The problem has been fixed.

Comment 11

[Ada [:adalucinet]]

WFM too with latest Aurora and Nightly builds from 2014-01-28.
It's also fixed on Aurora from 2013-12-14 (comment 0).

Comment 12

[Igor Mackeev]

There are some sites out there that are still affected (e.g., http://raketa-tv.com), but it's their loss (they are, so to speak, trailing behind in technology).

Comment 13

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Awesome! Thanks for testing this, Igor and Alexandra. :)

Comment 14

[u279076]

Marking verified based on above testing.