205187 - text and links become unavailable to mouse

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205165

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Ron Echeverri]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030504 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030504 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Right now, the ESPN frontpage has a cute Flash ad that is fairly large; after a
couple of seconds, the rest of the page shifts upwards and obscures half of the
ad, which has an "expand" button if you want to see its full glory again.

Anyhow, the problem is that, once the ad "shrinks", i cannot select text or
click links on the rest of the page, except for the MSN sidebar on the right and
the Flash ad at the top.  Scrolling within the window, moving to an adjacent
page then back with Alt-Arrow, or switching tabs doesn't help.  I _can_ select
links with the keyboard (e.g., i can type "mlb" then hit Enter to go to the
baseball page).  This ONLY occurs with the shrinking Flash ads.

The only workaround i've found for this problem is maximizing (and then
restoring) the browser window.

This occurs in Mozilla 1.4b as well as the Firebird build described above.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://espn.go.com/main.html
2. Wait for Flash ad to 'shrink'
3. Try to select text with the mouse or click a link 

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
Text should have become highlighted, or link should've been followed.

I'm nearly certain it's due to ESPN's sterling Webmastering skills, but i figure
you guys might know more about it.

Comment 1

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205165 ***