246288 - Drop down menus are obscured by Macromedia Flash player window.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[kallen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608

The main page at tw.giga-byte.com, the home page for Gigabyte Products, has a
horizontal menu bar.  Below it a running Macromedia Flash7 window rolls through
a series of promo pictures.  The drop down menu items for the menu bar are
incorrectly covered by the flash window.  For example, if you focus on the
"products" menu item a drop down menu includes the list of major produts
Gigabyte offers (Motherboards, Graphis Accelerators, etc.) Unfortunately most of
the drop downs are unavailable behind the flash window.  This has been a problem
in Mozilla at least since v1.5.  At least since v5.5 IE displays correctly.
I have seen this problem on a number of other sites.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.http://tw.gigabyte.com.
2.Focus on products menu item.
3.Drop down menu (Motherboard, Graphics Accelerator,... is covered by flash window.

Actual Results:  
The drop down menu is obscured by the flash window.

Expected Results:  
The drop down menu should have kept the focus an covered the flash window.

I have seen this same behavior at several sites.  I have also seen the same
behavior on Win98, Win98SE, WinMe, Win2k, WinXP, and Win2k3.  Mozilla has
exhibited the same faulty behavior at least since v1.5.  IE has displyed
correctly at least since v5.5.  This bug is minor but very irritating.  On sites
where it occurs the menus system is often effectively disabled, making Mozilla
unusable on these sites.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 254664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Keith Hopkins]

(In reply to comment #1)
> *** Bug 254664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Shockwave Flash 6.0 r81

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Shockwave Flash 6.0 r81

Can you please update to version 7 and retest?

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

Comment 4

[Keith Hopkins]

(In reply to comment #1)
> *** Bug 254664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Updated flash to Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25, but behaviour is the same.

Oddly, about:plugins still lists the old version of flash, and the new version,
even though there is only one set of files in the plugins directory.  Where else
does firefox look for plugins?

Comment 5

[Keith Hopkins]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > *** Bug 254664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> 
> Updated flash to Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25, but behaviour is the same.
> 
> Oddly, about:plugins still lists the old version of flash, and the new version,
> even though there is only one set of files in the plugins directory.  Where else
> does firefox look for plugins?

Found old plugin in ~/.mozilla/plugins
removed them, and only current version shows in about:plugins

rechecked web site, but behaviour is still broken.

Comment 6

[Keith Hopkins]

I see some interesting behaviour in Mozilla 1.7.2 and Firefox 0.9.1 that does
not have flash installed.  The drop down menus appear behind the PLACEHOLDER.

The code snipped creating the placeholder looks like this.

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"
width="390" height="175">

<param name=movie value="ADBanner/flashbanner.swf">
<param name=wmode value=transparent><param name=quality value=high>

<embed wmode='transparent' src="ADBanner/flashbanner.swf" quality=high
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="390" height="175"></embed> 

</object>
<img src="images/whatsnew.gif">

I'll take a WAG at this and say the "wmode='transparent'" part of the embed it
not acting as it should?

Comment 7

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

*** Bug 256446 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820
Firefox/0.9.1+
Shockwave Flash 7.0 r19

Comment 9

[José Jeria]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Updated flash to Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25, but behaviour is the same.
> 
> Oddly, about:plugins still lists the old version of flash, and the new version,
> even though there is only one set of files in the plugins directory.  Where else
> does firefox look for plugins?

What flash version does it say when your right click on the flash?

Comment 10

[SaRgE]

Shockwave Flash

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25

with flash 7.0 r25 the behavior is the samee

Comment 11

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 256765 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[José Jeria]

This works fine for me on:
http://tw.giga-byte.com/

but here it doesnt work:
http://www.giga-byte.com

Reason for this is that the first one uses wmode="transparent" and the other one
does not. Can somebody confirm this?

Comment 13

[SaRgE]

for me.... http://tw.giga-byte.com/ work bad too

Comment 14

[José Jeria]

So , if it doesnt work, make sure of 2 things, that you have flash 7 installed,
and that you check the source on the page it doesnt work. Look for the <embed>
tag(not a param tag), does it have the attribute wmode="transparent"? 

Comment 15

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 264767 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Chris Weigert]

Also occurs on www.wdwmagic.com -- the banner of the site (done in flash)
obscures the drop down menus at the top of the page.

Comment 17

[Chris Weigert]

of course, I forget the pertinent information.  Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Final,
Windows XP Home SP2.

Comment 18

[Vaclav Dvorak]

Apparently, non-windowless-mode plugins are always drawn as topmost, i.e., they
have the highest z-index. So, unless the embed tag has wmode="transparent", the
problem will always occur. This is stated in bug 93959 comment 59. Windowless
mode was implemented in bug 44322.

The other issue is that so far, on Unixes, windowless mode isn't implemented at
all, so the problem will occur even with wmode="transparent". This is bug 137189.

Also see bug 181138.

So:
- if you are not on Windows or Mac, go to bug 137189.
- if the page doesn't use wmode="transparent", go evangelize the page author.
- otherwise, this seems a valid bug.

Comment 19

[Marcin Garski]

Same here Firefox 1.0.7 with Flash 7.0 r25 under Linux.

See also bug #292149 #297066 and bug #228256.

Comment 20

[José Jeria]

(In reply to comment #19)
> Same here Firefox 1.0.7 with Flash 7.0 r25 under Linux.

See comment 18

Comment 21

[José Jeria]

Is anybody on Windows or Mac seing this issue on this url:
http://tw.giga-byte.com/

Or is it linux only?

Comment 22

[Braden]

This is *not* a duplicate of bug 137189; note the reporter noticed this on Windows.

Weeding out the noise here from people running Linux: comment #8 suggests this is now working; comment #16 suggests it is not.

As of this writing, tw.giga-byte.com is using "wmode=transparent" and I cannot reproduce the problem using Firefox 1.5.0.4 and Flash 8.0r22. I am inclined to suspect it may have been missing that attribute when this bug was reported.

Works for me.