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?
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!
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 |
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.
Thanks for the details.