Closed Bug 843470 Opened 12 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Flash bypasses Flashblock on recent nightly

Categories

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

22 Branch
x86
Windows 7
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: beryllium-bugs, Unassigned)

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Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130220 Firefox/22.0
Build ID: 20130220031126

Steps to reproduce:

I visited the following web page:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/cosmic-quarries-a-new-frontier-for-mineral-exploration-20130220-2erm0.html



Actual results:

The flash content was played, and not blocked as usual by Flashblock


Expected results:

The flash content should have been blocked.
This seems to have started happening in a recent Nightly, perhaps since around 15 Feb 2013. I will try and bisect which at some point. This seems to be similar to Bug 652300. I've also started having issues with high cpu usage in the same recent timeframe, but this does not suggest the issue is related.
Investigating, the last known good was:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2013-02-14-03-28-50-mozilla-central/firefox-21.0a1.en-US.win64-x86_64.zip

Everything since fails to block flash.
about:buildconfig lists the source for the last known good as:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/aceeea086ccb

and the next nightly at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2013-02-15-03-10-40-mozilla-central/ list the source as:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/953b1db7a246

Hope that helps.
Sorry this is a known problem. I've fixed it in my tree and you can get it from:
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/installation1.html#unstable (Flashblock 1.5.unstable). I also need to update the what's new and upload it to addons.mozilla.org. Sorry for the lack of timeliness on my part. 

FYI: expected fallout from Bug 834697 (Enable XBL Scopes)
Blocks: 834697
Component: Untriaged → Extension Compatibility
Hi Philip. That worked for me. Thanks. Should I close this bug?
Fixed by uploading Flashblock v1.5.17 to addons.mozilla.org.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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