251823 - firefox/epiphany/etc overlap flash content and html text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 137189

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Henrique]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8

When loading many pages with mixed html and flash content the browser
positions flash over html (that is, some content gets hidden)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the page
2. Bug


Actual Results:  
I came here.


Expected Results:  
The software shouldn't have overlapped the contents.

Comment 1

[Henrique]

Attachment: Sample image

Comment 2

[Dave Schmidt]

I have seen this issue on this page:

http://www.enh.org/aboutus/billing/mga/index.asp

My setup:  WinXP, Firefox 1.0PR, Flashblock installed.  I'll attach an image.

Comment 3

[Dave Schmidt]

Attachment: flash overlap with enh.org site

Comment 4

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Comment 5

[Henrique]

After one year of this problem still happening, I have a better understanding of
the undesired effects. The problem should be restated so as to explain what's
really happening:

 "There are some flash ads on some web pages that change their size while
running. Initially, they are supposed to be a standard banner-like ad (say, a
thin rectangular area on the top of the page). When a person moves the mouse
over the banner, the bottom end of the banner rolls down, showing a more
complete ad in a bigger rectangle that may overlap the contents of the page. The
overlapping shouldn't be a problem, because either the ad has a close button, or
it should automatically roll up again. The bug, that happens in firefox is that
the flash animation already loads in it's maximum size and there's no way to
shrink it."

 I would say that the bug is in the linux flash software. Anyway, firefox code
should be checked too. I should be able to post new screenshots when the pages
that I know change their ads to the problematic ones.

 Henrique Dante de Almeida
 [e-mail]

Comment 6

[Henrique]

Attachment: Bug on www.infomoney.com.br

Comment 7

[Henrique]

Attachment: Bug at ultimosegundo.ig.com.br, part #1

In this page we can see the following things happening:
 1) The ad is in it's initial state, waiting for the mouse to be moved over
 2) The bottom of the ad is already rolled down showing only white (except for
the gray picture that stayed on top of it)
 3) It's impossible to read what's behind the ad

Comment 8

[Henrique]

Attachment: Bug at ultimosegundo.ig.com.br, part #1

In this page we can see the following things happening:
 1) The ad is in it's initial state, waiting for the mouse to be moved over
 2) The bottom of the ad is already rolled down showing only white (except for
the gray picture that stayed on top of it)
 3) It's impossible to read what's behind the ad

Comment 9

[Henrique]

Attachment: Bug at ultimosegundo.ig.com.br, part #2

The mouse was moved over the picture and the ad is now in it's full state.

Comment 10

[Charles O'Rourke]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

I think this is part of this same bug; if you go to http://www.mlb.com, there is a lot of flash content on the page, and the drop-down menus at the top fall behind the Flash instead of over.  This is only on Linux; the menus work properly on Windows.

Comment 11

[Henrique]

(In reply to comment #10)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308
> Firefox/1.5.0.2
> 
> I think this is part of this same bug; if you go to http://www.mlb.com, there
> is a lot of flash content on the page, and the drop-down menus at the top fall
> behind the Flash instead of over.  This is only on Linux; the menus work
> properly on Windows.
> 

This bug is two years old and nobody will fix it. Give up.

Comment 12

[David Farning]

I would like to confirm this behavior as found on http://www.ishares.com/home.jhtml

as reported in issue 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/49613

Thanks
David