217857 - when flash pages are loaded, command-n and command-w do not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78414

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Jennifer Golbeck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

When viewing pages that have running flash animations, like
http://homestarrunner.com/awexome.html, command-n will not open a new window as
it usually does, nor will command-w close the window. It seems like this only
happens when the flash can take input, like after one clicks "start" on the page
above. Also, if I manually click on another window and come back to the one with
the flash, the shortcuts seem to work again

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://homestarrunner.com/awexome.html
2.Let the little intro part load. 
3. Click "Click here to start".
4. Once the game begins, hit command-n or command-w. They will not work

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens (which is the problem). A new window will not open and the
current page will not close.

Expected Results:  
The shortcuts should work even when flash movies are playing.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The problem is that the Flash window traps the events, so Mozilla never even
knows they happened (the OS never tells us about them).

Comment 2

[Torben]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78414 ***