233243 - Keyboard shortcuts dont work if mouse is hovering over a plugin

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 95541

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Bilari]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

If you check your mail at Yahoo.com, they very often have ads in the form of
flash movies. If by chance the mouse pointer is over a flash plugin, then
keyboard shortcuts just die. You have to move the mouse outside the plugin area
and click somewhere within the page frame only then the shortcuts become usable.
This can be observed even when you cycle tabs using Ctrl+PgUp or PgDn and land
upon a page that has a plugin.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Login in to yahoo mail account and stumble on a page that has a flash movie
2.Let mouse hover inside the plugin.
3.Try to use some keyboard shortcuts

Actual Results:  
Keyboard shortcuts dont work

Expected Results:  
Keyboard shortcuts should work regardless of the underlying component that is
receiving focus. I think when the mouse hovers over a plugin, focus is grabbed
by that plugin and since that plugin doesn't have any shortcuts, it is
insensitive to keyboard shortcuts. Maybe if there is some plugin that DOES have
keyboard shortcuts, they will become active and supersede Mozilla's kb
shortcuts. Just a guess.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The problem is that the plugin has its own X window, so X never even tells us
about the key events....

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 95541 ?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233159 ***

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

verified.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95541 ***