266624 - Drop-down menus appear behind Flash applet when expanded.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom Williams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

When I visit the home page for Pioneer Electronics, the drop-down menus entitled
"For Car" and "For Home" appear *behind* the Flash applet on that page when they
are expanded.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/
2.Move the mouse over the "For Car" or "For Home" menus
3.They drop down behind the Flash applet on the page

Actual Results:  
The drop down menus appear behind the Flash applet on that page.

Expected Results:  
The drop down menus should appear in front of the Flash applet so they are visible.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Which flash version are you using, Tom?

Comment 2

[Tom Williams]

Flash player 7:

Shockwave Flash

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes
application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl 	Yes

and this behaves as described using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1 as well as Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux
i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913.

I can post screenshots, if you like.  I DO have the AdBlock extension installed
in Firefox but not in Mozilla suite (since it doesn't exist for Mozilla suite).

Peace...

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ah, I see.  From the Macromedia release notes for Flash 7.0r25 for Linux (at
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/7/releasenotes.html#linux):

  Macromedia Flash Player 7.0.25.0 for Linux includes all of the features from
  Flash Player 7.0.19.0 except for windowless mode.

"windowless mode" is what allows the plugin to be part of the normal compositing
process instead of just painting itself on top of everything.

So this is just a bug Macromedia has introduced in its most recent Flash release...