Comment 44 for bug 585940

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 04:23 +0000, David Clayton wrote:
> "The above site doesn't use Adobe Flash, but Microsoft Silverlight.
> Probably you have Moonlight installed, and you think you are seeing a
> Flash video, but you actually see a Silverlight video."
>
> That may be so, but the site prompts for Flash install on first run
> inside a fresh install, and then prompts for Silverlight/Moonlight
> plugin install after that.
>
> When all those steps are completed (auto-installing the 32-bit flash and
> then manually selecting the X64 Moonlight plugin) viewing a video and
> then right-clicking properties in the video window locks up Firefox.
> Replace the 32-bit Flash with the 64-bit Flash and doing right-click
> works correctly.
>
> The bottom line is that the 64-bit Flash plugin functions as it is
> supposed to and the 32-bit one doesn't.

I just checked the site http://www.afl.com.au with Ubuntu 10.04 x64,
Ubuntu 9.10 x64, and Ubuntu 9.10 x86, having installed the latest Adobe
Flash (version 10.1.53.64) and Moonlight (version 2.2), and the results
are the following:

Ubuntu 9.10 x64, Ubuntu 10.04 x64:

The flash video does not play, and Firefox hangs on right-click.

Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit:

The flash video does not play, but right-click works.

Bottom line, at the above site, flash videos don't play either in 32-bit
or 64-bit Ubuntu. I think the above site is a mess regarding this.

I consider youtube as a reliable site to check flash videos.

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