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SWF file is not displaying in browser

Community Beginner ,
Oct 25, 2017 Oct 25, 2017

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We have a flex project which called from browser by using a swf file. After flash update the swf file is disabled.

Here are the list of flash versions and browsers that we used in windows 7 OS.

- Installed Firefox 56.0 - NPAPI 25.0.0.170 version in Firefox . -

   Issue exist

- Installed Firefox 56.0 - NPAPI 25.0.0.127 version in Firefox . -

   Working Fine

- Installed Firefox 56.0 - NPAPI 24.0.0.221 version in Firefox . -

   Working Fine

- Installed Firefox 56.0 - NPAPI 24.0.0.194 version in Firefox . -

   Issue exist.

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- Installed Chrome 61.0.3163.100 - PPAPI 25.0.0.170 version . - Issue

   exist

- Installed Chrome 61.0.3163.100 - PPAPI 25.0.0.127 version . - Issue

   exist

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Here is the disabled swf file.

Any solution for this?

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 25, 2017 Oct 25, 2017

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Hi,

Please try 27.0.0.183, released earlier this morning.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 25, 2017 Oct 25, 2017

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Hi ,

I tried with the 27.0.0.183. It didn't worked. Thank you for the quick reply.

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 25, 2017 Oct 25, 2017

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First things first, try 27.0.0.183.  If that doesn't work, we'll need to debug it to understand why it's crashing.

You attached an image, but not a SWF.  If you can post a publicly accessible link that demonstrates the problem, and step by step instructions on how to reproduce the crash, that would be ideal.  If you can't share a link, you can upload the actual SWF to Adobe Send, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. and share a link to the download and post it in a reply to the forums, assuming that it will demonstrate the problem when run locally or from a local webserver.

If you'd prefer to keep that content private, you're welcome to send me a private message (just click my name) with the link instead.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 25, 2017 Oct 25, 2017

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Hi jeromiec83223024​ ,

I have sent you a release build of  swf file in a message. When we try to run the swf file via web application it checks the air run time has installed or not and gives the status as "Available".

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We have installed adobe air and current version is 27.0.0.124.

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Since the application is a web distribution is that enough to go only with air installation?

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 30, 2017 Oct 30, 2017

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You sent me a link to a folder, but it's set to private, so I couldn't view it.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 30, 2017 Oct 30, 2017

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I changed the sharing settings, could you please try now.

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 31, 2017 Oct 31, 2017

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What am I supposed to see when the content you've supplied is working correctly?

This is all I get in Firefox 56.0.2, with any of the Flash Player versions you've listed above.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 31, 2017 Oct 31, 2017

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Yes, it is working fine. This is the grayed flash content that we go too. When you drag the grayed layer it shows a message which we had put to check the status of air. It returns status as "Available".  Thats the issue that we have.

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Adobe Employee ,
Nov 01, 2017 Nov 01, 2017

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Honestly, I don't understand what I'm looking at, or what your original request was looking for.

Are you sure that the SWF works when run locally (or from a local webserver)?  When I drag the box, nothing happens, except that I see a little orange icon underneath.

Given the 24-hour response cycle, I don't thing it's helping you to continue to go back and forth with one-sentence answers.  I think it would be worth your time to write up an actual bug report that I can follow, that includes steps to reproduce, and actual and expected results, with screenshots, if applicable. 

You can file a bug over http://tracker.adobe.com/.

At this point, I'm just trying to understand what the bug is that you're trying to report.  I've spent enough time on this to have solved it at this point, and I still have no idea what I'm looking at.

Your original post doesn't make any sense to me, and I simply don't understand what you need from us.

I have sent you a release build of  swf file in a message. When we try to run the swf file via web application it checks the air run time has installed or not and gives the status as "Available".

2017-10-26_10-37-35.png

We have installed adobe air and current version is 27.0.0.124.

2017-10-26_10-13-47.png

Since the application is a web distribution is that enough to go only with air installation?

What are you trying to accomplish, and what, specifically, doesn't work?

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New Here ,
Nov 02, 2017 Nov 02, 2017

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Hi Jeromie,

I have created bug FP-4198687 for this issue. I have also updated the test case in the bug to make the button larger, so you can easily see the error message and status. If you open the test case from the bug and run "lauchAppWeb.html" in Internet Explorer you should see a message that says "installed", letting us know the AIR run-time is installed on the machine.

If you run the same test case on Chrome or Firefox you will get a message saying the run-time is "not found", but can be installed. You will then see a status message of "available". It appears that with the latest releases you can no longer detect the air run-time although the run-time is installed.

Hope this clarifies what Thanuj was saying.

Jo

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Adobe Employee ,
Nov 02, 2017 Nov 02, 2017

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Thanks for the clarification.  That's very helpful.

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Adobe Employee ,
Nov 02, 2017 Nov 02, 2017

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Here's what's going on:

There's a SWF called AIR.swf that's included in the AIR SDK that makes a number of functions available for developers that are intended to tell you about the availability of AIR on a given client machine.

Flash Player is supposed to inspect the machine and determine if AIR is present, and that worked and made a lot of sense 6-7 years ago when it was implemented, but tightening browser sandboxes have restricted Flash Player's ability to reliably conduct those inspections.

In the case of Firefox, there's a very large difference between 32-bit Firefox on Windows and 64-bit Firefox on Windows, in that 64-bit Firefox contains a native NPAPI sandbox.  For historical reasons, Mozilla did not ship an NPAPI sandbox on 32-bit Windows, so we wrote our own, and tacked a Flash sandbox on to the back side of the NPAPI interface.  We had a little more insight into our business needs than Mozilla does, so we made appropriate affordances to keep those things working.

Mozilla has largely committed to 64-bit Firefox, and it's the default version served to Windows users at this point; however, if you already have a 32-bit Firefox installed on a 64-bit operating system, I don't think that they'll change the installed version.  I don't have a lot of insight into their release and update strategy, but that approach may have changed.  In general, 64-bit Firefox performs better, and is more stable and secure, so pushing users to it would make a lot of sense.

The test data that was provided above is inaccurate, and I suspect that the results are muddied by testing across multiple machines with a mix of 32 and 64-bit Firefox.   It not that the SWF wasn't loading, but that the call to airSWF.getStatus() returns an inaccurate result.

Here's the result set from our triage, which aligns better with my intuition:

FAIL - Firefox 56.0.2 (64-bit) on Win7 x64 with Flash Player 27.0.0.183, 24.0.0.221, 25.0.0.127

PASS - Firefox 56.0.2 (32-bit) on Win7 x64 with Flash Player 27.0.0.183, 24.0.0.221, 25.0.0.127

PASS - Firefox 58.0a1 (2017-10-16) (32-bit) on Win7 x64 with Flash Player 27.0.0.183

FAIL - Firefox 58.0a1 (2017-11-02) (64-bit) on Win7 x64 with Flash Player 27.0.0.183

FAIL - Chrome Version 61.0.3163.100 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Win7 x64 with Flash Player 27.0.0.183

PASS - Internet Explorer 11 on Win7 x64 with Flash Player 27.0.0.183

What you'll see across the Firefox data, is that the behavior doesn't break across Flash Player versions, but across the sandbox variant employed.

It's also the case that Chrome (and I suspect Edge, but haven't tested it yet) also employ a sandbox that restricts Flash Player's ability to inspect the system for the presence of AIR and correctly return a result.  In the grander scheme of things, reducing Flash Player's access to the broader system a good thing, since it's primary job is processing untrusted content.

So, the state of affairs is that this functionality is pretty fragmented across the existing body of supported browser/os combinations.  In order to correct it (we're always shooting for platform parity, it's basically our reason for existing), we'll have to negotiate with each individual browser vendor to loosen that constraint such that we can provide an authoritative answer.

I'll open a copy of this bug up internally so that we can discuss it as a larger engineering management team, but I can pretty definitively tell you that any resolution for this will be slow at best, just because of the number of organizations involved and the priority that this issue would take in their larger scheme of individual engineering priorities.

In terms of your immediate needs, you're probably better off adapting your interaction workflow to a world where you can't reliably detect the AIR shared runtime from Flash Player, either by adopting a captive runtime strategy, or walking users through the shared runtime installation in a more explicit way.

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Nov 06, 2017 Nov 06, 2017

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Thank you Jeromie.

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 09, 2017 Nov 09, 2017

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Hi Jeromie,

I tried to create a captive runtime bundle by following the instructions here Adobe AIR * Packaging a captive runtime bundle for desktop computers . But that doesn't make sense that we can only run the program directly from the folder.

In other way what does that meant by 'shared runtime installation in a more explicit way.'

We would be grateful that you could have a look on this.

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Adobe Employee ,
Nov 09, 2017 Nov 09, 2017

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That's a better question for the AIR forums.  We're outside the area of my expertise, but the gist is that a captive runtime application is just a normal desktop application.  You could theoretically register a custom URL handler for your application that would cause the browser to launch it on a system where the application is installed, but again, it's not my area of expertise.  There are people that know that stuff way better than I do.

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Nov 09, 2017 Nov 09, 2017

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Thank you Jeromie, I'll put a post on forum.

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Nov 22, 2017 Nov 22, 2017

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OK. I am the second person who hit this error. So we still need to wait ?

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