Closed Bug 1376341 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Firefox fails to launch flash player plugin

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

55 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: reginaldlather, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: flashplayer)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0 Build ID: 20170622104007 Steps to reproduce: Firefox is my default browser. I selected a local htm page from my hard-drive which has an embedded swf Actual results: Firefox launched with the URL of file:///DriveLetter:/MyDir/myPage.htm but the flash player plugin (126.0.0.131) did not launch so the content was not displayed. FYI: If I move the files to my IIS wwwroot folder and call it via my localhost 192.168.1.2/myPage.htm - Firefox launches and flash player plug-in launches too, as expected and the content is displayed Expected results: Flash player should have launched and the content should have displayed in firefox
You can no longer load Flash from file:///. See https://www.fxsitecompat.com/en-CA/docs/2017/flash-can-now-be-loaded-only-from-http-https/ for details.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Component: Untriaged → Plug-ins
Keywords: flashplayer
Product: Firefox → Core
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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