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Bug 330483

Summary: firefox does not open streetview when you zoom into a map
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: jez austin <jezaustin>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://maps.google.com
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description jez austin 2010-07-30 10:44:45 UTC
firefox 3.6.8 does not open streetview. The little man icon appears on the map, but flash does not start up. The bug is there for old 64-bit flash and the newer 32-bit only flash. Streetview does work in opera.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open firefox
2.go to google maps
3.zoom into any area which should have streetview

Actual Results:  
The little man icon appears, but flash plugin does not start up

Expected Results:  
The flash plugin should fire up with streetview.
Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2010-07-31 13:22:04 UTC
Not much we can do with a binary plugin.
Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-08-04 20:20:54 UTC
I did some tests which let me come to the conclusion that this might be a firefox bug...
First, only amd64 is affected, x86 shows streetview just fine.
I did some tests on my ~amd64 machine with latest native 64bit flash plugin (www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.45.2-r2). The results are that www-client/seamonkey (version 2.0.6 AND 2.1_alpha2) shows streetview whereas firefox/icecat (version 3.6.8) doesn't show streetview.
Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2010-08-05 00:42:24 UTC
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so;false  the plugin is not compatible with this function disable the in about:config then you should be fine. I just tested with ff-3.6.8/xul-1.9.2.8 and www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.45.2

As I said previously nothing we can do with a binary plugin.
Comment 4 jez austin 2010-08-05 13:34:53 UTC
Jory, "resolved invalid" makes it seem like I was wrong to open this bug, is that correct? I'd like to pursue testing this with different configurations. Please let me know if this is inappropriate for a bug report. It seems like it would be useful to have a place to officially track this kind of bug, even though it seems frustratingly out of reach since it involves a closed binary.

Lars, the package www-client/firefox-bin is x86 isn't it? -- I have it installed, but it doesn't run streetview. Other flash stuff, eg. youtube works fine.