202637 - Java news ticker draws contents to all tabs in window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 162134

(Core Graveyard :: Java APIs for DOM, defect)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030212

The home page for http://stratfor.com has a java applet which displays scrolling
headlines. If this is opened in a tabbed window, the headlines continue to
appear even when viewing another tab. That is, the applet is able to draw over
the contents of tabs other than the one it appears in.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://stratfor.com
2. switch to another tab in the same window with or without another site loaded
in it.
3. wait about one second. headlines will begin scrolling through the new tab.
Actual Results:  
The headlines scrolling through the stratfor.com tab are visible in the other tab.

Expected Results:  
Not displayed the headlines except in the stratfor.com tab.

Comment 1

[Chris Casciano]

fun... changing the window height i can get it to paint over the chrome too!
(although the page doesn't seem to load completely for me.

I think this is out there already tho.

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104532 ***

Comment 3

[Chris Casciano]

reopening...

that's the wrong bug... this is about a java applet poking through tabs in the
content area of a window... not javascript updating the window status bar

Comment 4

[Chris Casciano]

its actually bug 162134 i was thinking of before

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 162134 ***

Comment 5

[Felix Miata]

I think 162134 is really a dupe of 104532, which amounts to that status bar
should only reflect the status of the currently selected tab.

Comment 6

[Brant Gurganus]

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