1289869 - Ask to activate is too invasive

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Robert Claypool]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Build ID: 20160726080520

Steps to reproduce:

Switched Flash to Ask to activate
Went to a lot of sites with flash on them


Actual results:

The current behavior of Ask to allow for me is to show a content modal box that covers up page content and steals focus, going one step beyond the needs attention behavior that does not allow the taskbar to auto-hide, a "taskbar alert", if you will. When you hit the x or ignore it, it shows up again immediately stealing focus again. There is no option for don't ask again for this session. 



Expected results:

It would be better if it was a strip across the window that does not block content at all.
Any indication of "needs attention", the "taskbar alert" or "stealing focus", is undesirable for me.

Comment 1

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Please provide a specific URL on which you see this behavior, and if possible, a screen shot would be useful too.

Comment 2

[ovidiu boca[:Ovidiu]]

Hi,
Marking this as Resolved: Incomplete due to the lack of response from the Robert.
If the issue is still reproducible with the latest Firefox version, feel free to reopen the bug with more information.