279532 - Flash apps disable key commands when mouse is over flash

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 78414

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[John]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

All Firefox keyboard input is disabled when the mouse pointer is over a flash
app (including ads, which are quite common). 
This is very confusing because when I try to do Cntl-L and type in a new URL,
nothing happens. Since there are many pages with flash ads, this often happens
without realizing it. 
I would disable Flash, but there are a couple sites I need it for. Maybe you
could have an option to disable flash but provide per-site exceptions (the same
way you handle popups). 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a site with a flash ad
2. Put mouse over the ad
3. Try to execute a command like Control-L or Control-P or Control-W. 

Actual Results:  
Command doesn't work. 

Expected Results:  
Key commands should work.

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

I've seen this filed several times. You're using sloppy focus -- just like bug
275895, so in the end another DUPE of bug 78414.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

ditto - OS windows XP. FF 1.8a5

however, changing block to resolve as dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78414 ***