[Bug 1335388] Re: Firefox 30 does not play flash files

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On 2014-04-10T23:46:16+00:00 Zen75502 wrote:

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140314220517

Steps to reproduce:

I attempted to run a Shockwave Flash file in-browser using a file:// URL
in the current official Mozilla Firefox x86-64 version 28 binary,
running on a Debian GNU/Linux jessie (testing) system. I have version
11.2 r202 of the Flash player installed.


Actual results:

Firefox presented me with the Opening (filename) dialog box that asks
whether I want to Open the file in an external viewer or Save the file
to my Downloads directory, as if I had accessed a file type Firefox
doesn't know how to handle.

Disabling all of my Extensions had no effect on this misbehaviour.


Expected results:

Firefox should have activated the Flash plugin to play the SWF file, in
the same way that it does when I access an SWF file via an http or https
URL, and in the same way that the Debian wheezy (stable) build of
Iceweasel does.

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On 2014-04-14T16:44:19+00:00 Madamezou wrote:

[bugday-20140414]

Hi,

thanks for taking time to report a problem!

I was able to reproduce this behavior with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux
x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 ID:20140409030203 CSet:
5811efc11011 on Debian Sid with Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202. I'm not sure
if this is done by design or not, though.

My about:preferences Application tab correctly associate the swf format with Shockwave Flash plugin.
If that can be of use, Chromium Version 33.0.1750.152 Debian jessie/sid (256984) as well cannot open a swf local file in-browser without asking first for the application to use.

Also: Firefox does open directly without asking local video files of
other formats, for instance .webm

Component → File Handling

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On 2014-04-29T15:55:50+00:00 Zen75502 wrote:

Still present in Firefox 29.

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On 2014-04-29T16:17:38+00:00 Zen75502 wrote:

While eagerly awaiting a proper fix, I've identified a tolerable
workaround:

For each SWF file you want to run locally, write a stub HTML file like
the following:

<object height="AAA" width="BBB">
<embed src="file:///local/path/to/file.swf" height="AAA" width="BBB">
</embed>
</object>

(replacing AAA and BBB with the dimensions you want it to have) and load
the stub HTML file instead of the SWF file.

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** Changed in: firefox
       Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: firefox
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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