245032 - Problem on page in tab with Flash that plays sound on mouseover

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Ian Brandt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

This is an interesting one.  A little hard to reproduce.  I open my local
weather, http://www.weather.com/weather/local/02170, in a new tab.  Occasionally
there is an X10 camera advertisement or some other Flash ad that plays sound
only on mouseover.  Well, if I'm scrolled to the top of the page I can also
trigger the sound by placing the mouse near the first tab.  This only happens if
tabs are open.  I'll attach screen shots showing the region.  Sorry I can't
provide a better test case, but I don't know flash, and couldn't find another
example with sound on mouseover.  I'll keep searching, or perhaps someone with
more web development experience could quickly mock something up?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ian Brandt]

Attachment: The offending ad

Comment 2

[Ian Brandt]

Attachment: The extraneous mouseover region

Comment 3

[Ali Ebrahim]

WFM using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2)
Gecko/20040526 Firefox/0.8.0+.

The only place that makes noise is over the flash ad. Please retest using the
latest nightly build of Firefox and the latest version of Flash.

Comment 4

[Ian Brandt]

Installed the nightly (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US;
rv:1.7) Gecko/20040529 Firefox/0.8.0+).  Installed Flash 7 player from
Macromedia's site (Version 7,0,19,0).  Loaded google.com.  Loaded weather.com in
a second tab.  This time it was the "Golf" version of the X10 ad that displayed
on the page.  Every time I mouseover the region outlined in my second screen
shot I get a low quality golf club swing noise.  Quite amusing actually.  Maybe
it's a Mac only bug?

Comment 5

[Steve Ruge]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Installed the nightly (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US;
> rv:1.7) Gecko/20040529 Firefox/0.8.0+).  Installed Flash 7 player from
> Macromedia's site (Version 7,0,19,0).  Loaded google.com.  Loaded weather.com in
> a second tab.  This time it was the "Golf" version of the X10 ad that displayed
> on the page.  Every time I mouseover the region outlined in my second screen
> shot I get a low quality golf club swing noise.  Quite amusing actually.  Maybe
> it's a Mac only bug?

weather.com has taken that ad out of its rotation apparently. I just went to try
to reproduce the problem and the ad is gone.

Is this not a dupe of bug 238356-web page still have mouse focus even when
selecting bookmark from menu?

Comment 6

[Ian Brandt]

I wouldn't say this is an exact dupe of Bug 238356 because I can not trigger any
of the sounds in the test case for that bug by mousing over the region in my
second screen shot, whereas that area would consistently trigger the mouseover
for any of the few different x10 ads in the weather.com rotation.  Also this bug
depended on tabs.

With the old x10 ads gone I can't find another test case.  Unless someone
objects I can mark this as WORKSFORME as it's been almost a year without a
confirmation.

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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