[Flashblock] Flashblock and Firefox 1.5

[Lorenzo Colitti]

Philip Chee wrote:
> I've refactored the XBL in the Flashblock 1.5 branch and I'm getting
> "this.block is not a function" errors in the js console. More
> alarmingly an old problem has resurfaced: A flash object is blocked
> and a placeholder appears, but an unblocked duplicate of the
> flash object appears immediately below the flashblock placeholder.
> I didn't remove the timeout so this is not the cause. Any ideas?
> (I've checked in the version of the XBL I'm using into the 1.5
> branch).

I'm looking at it now, but I can't see this. What URL are you using? 
(BTW: if you have a suite of test cases, can you put them online?)

> Also I am testing with FF 1.5RC2 because RC3 has a regression in
> the flashplayer 8 plugin handling bug which seems to interact
> negatively with the "this.block" problem.

Hmm, I won't be able to see this because I'm on Linux and Flash 8 does 
not exist for Linux (yet?).

> Also according to bzbarsky, the fix to the regression will not make
> it into FF 1.5 final and is targeted at Gecko 1.8.0.1. So it looks
> like we can't take out the hacks I made to workaround this bug.

Drat. What were the hacks you used?



Cheers,
Lorenzo

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Lorenzo Colitti                          http://www.colitti.com/lorenzo/