283856 - Flash Plugin above all web content

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[John M]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Galeon/1.3.19 (Debian package 1.3.19-4)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Galeon/1.3.19 (Debian package 1.3.19-4)

There is a drop-down menu "All Sections", when it pops up, it is below the flash
plugin. So you can't access parts of the menu. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Worksforme with a current Linux trunk build.

Comment 2

[Stuart Auld]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050602 

I can reproduce this bug.

It's odd - I opened this site in Opera, and the "All Sections" menu doesn't even
appear!

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> I can reproduce this bug.

Which Flash plugin version?  Macromedia removed windowless mode in some recent
versions for some reason.

Comment 4

[Stuart Auld]

> Which Flash plugin version?
Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Odd..  That's the same version I have...

Comment 6

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Comment 7

[Andrei Boros]

I was just about to report the same thing (found this while searching for existing bugs). 

Firefox 2.0 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Win98SE
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r16 plugin

We run a website for our company with a large Flash element on the upper part of the page. While attempting some design elements I found out that in Firefox, any layer (div, iframe, layer) positioned with CSS to be above (z-ordering) existing content, positioned absolute, etc. 

Nothing can get over the flash plugin. Everything is rendered hidden behind it and the flash plugin is ALWAYS on top. 

I found no way of working around this using CSS positioning. 

I confirm this bug on win98 and Winxp platform. 

Comment 8

[Andrei Boros]

See this URL :
http://www.srr.ro/test.htm

I have created a test page based on our website. The snow effect is a simple javascript which uses DIV elements with a IMG in them, positioned absolute via CSS. 

Other styles do not use z-index (so the default is in effect).

Regardless of the z-index property for the DIV elements created by this javascript, the snowflakes stay BEHIND the flash content. 

See this URL :
http://www.srr.ro/test2.htm

Here there is no related javascript, just a DIV element positioned absolute, with CSS, z-index:1. (any positive value at that). 

I will add an attachement to illustrate how my Firefox renders this. 

Comment 9

[Andrei Boros]

Attachment: Screenshot

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

If you want flash to z-index properly, you have to use wmode="transparent".  See the Macromedia documentation.

Comment 11

[marek.vanco]

Attachment: Screen shot

I confirm this bug. I have the same problem on the web of lemonde.fr
see screenshot

Comment 12

[marek.vanco]

Attachment: Screen shot

I confirm this bug. I have the same problem on the web of lemonde.fr
see screenshot. In windows version of firefox this is correct.

Comment 13

[kurros (Wade Majors)]

This was resolved by Flash 10 and Firefox 3.0