Launchpad has imported 4 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=995003.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1335388/comments/0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1335388/comments/1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2014-04-29T15:55:50+00:00 Zen75502 wrote: Still present in Firefox 29. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1335388/comments/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1335388/comments/3 ** Changed in: firefox Status: Unknown => Confirmed ** Changed in: firefox Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1335388 Title: Firefox 30 does not play flash files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1335388/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
