Uanble to type in the user name field of the vsphere web client after firefox update to 37 on Ubuntu

[dscottimw]

so this morning I was working on my Ubuntu 14.04LTS laptop using Firefox to access the vSphere web client.  It updated the version from 36.something to 37.0 and after restarting Firefox I can no longer type anything in the user name field on the login page for the vsphere web client. I can however type in the password field. This is not the case with Firefox 37 running on my windows 7 (as a vm on my Ubuntu box). I am currently running vCenter 5.5.0 build 1750787. I've attempted to restart Firefox and my laptop but the same results occur.

I can still login via chrome normally on both my Ubuntu and Windows boxes.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour and have you been able to correct it?

[IamTHEvilONE]

vSphere web client is written in Flash/Flex (don't quote me on this).  Wasn't Flash for Linux generally deprecated recently, or this might have something to do with NPAPI deprecation?  Chrome/Chromium uses Pepper as the version of flash, which is updated afaik.

References: Using Firefox on Linux? Your Flash Player is Old and Outdated!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI

[Solorider]

I can confirm this issue has existed on Firefox for last few revs as well. I can login on OS X (10.10.3 and previous rev) using Safari but Firefox does not type anything in. Same version of Flash on both sides and same vSphere plugin. Server side is running Vcenter appliance.

I have appliance version 5.5.0.20400 Build 2442330 where it doesn't work and another appliance same version where it works and a third appliance that is 5.0 where it doesn't work.

Updating to

5.5.0.20500 Build 2646489 doesn't help either

[dscottimw]

I ended up applying Firefox 37.0.1 and that seems to have resolved the issue for me.  I'm using pepperflash as my flash player plugin.

[IamTHEvilONE]

Thanks for the details.