288071 - Firefox shows flash animation on all the tabs, over the content

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 286493

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Tom Moors]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050324 Firefox/1.0 (Ubuntu package 1.0.2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050324 Firefox/1.0 (Ubuntu package 1.0.2)

When I open multiple tabs and one of the sites has for example a flash banner,
the banner is visible on the same position when I select an other tab, very
annoying.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.I open firefox or mozilla and go to a flash-less website (for example bloglines)
2.I open a new tab and open a site with flash-banners (for example toms hardware)
3.I scroll until I see a flash animation and choose the first tab

Actual Results:  
The flash-banner is visible, sometimes blinking, sometimes just steady

Expected Results:  
The flash-banner is content from the first site and doesn't need to be showed on
an other website

I installed the latest firefox and mozilla versions using ubuntu update manager.
I'd like to mention my flashplayer version but I don't know where to find it.

Comment 1

[Richard Hurt]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Firefox/1.0.7

I would like to add another "feature" to this bug.  The ACLU-Mass
(http://www.aclu-mass.org/mbta/bag_searches.asp) web page contains a flash-based
menu bar that persists on all the tabs and also scrolls with the page.  It also
prevented interaction with other pages - I went here to file a bug but was
unable to type into any box until I closed the ACLU tab.

This was confirmed on Mac OS X 10.3 running both Firefox 1.0.6 and 1.0.7. 
Please change the Hardware & OS selections to include the Macintosh.

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

See bug 286493, comment 7, does it help?

Comment 3

[Richard Hurt]

Hmmm...  I don't think this applies to me.  I have experienced this bug while running on MacOS X 10.3.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 286493 ***