292484 - Flash menu inaccessible. Animation freezes unless mouse button depressed. Browser rendered inoperable.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Dan Hammari]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

The flash-based menu for games on homestarrunner.com is functional on other OS
platforms when using the Firefox browser.  Only the Mac OS X build seems to lock
up on this page. The entire Firefox browser locks up and I must Force Quit the
application.  This site is completely Flash-based, and the problem will
temporarily emerge inside other pages, but this page in particular causes the
entire browser to crash. The entire browser freezes until the mouse button is
depressed, but it is impossible to access any functionality in the browser while
depressing the mouse button.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to homestarrunner.com
2. Click on the games menu.
3. Depress the mouse button to try to select a game.

Actual Results:  
The Firefox browser freezes and no options are accessible. Depressing the mouse
button causes the browser to wake up, but a user cannot operate the browser or
any of the pages features while holding the mouse button down.

Expected Results:  
The flash animation should run without any intervention from the user and the
browser should not lock up.

I am using a titanium powerbook 500mhz running Mac OS X (10.3.8) on 512 MB of
RAM.  I have downloaded the latest Firefox release and installed the latest
Macromedia Flash components, and the issue remains. This issue has been present
with previous builds of Firefox as well, regardless of whether I have downloaded
a flash plug-in from Macromedia.

Comment 1

[Uri Bernstein]

Dupe of bug 106397?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

ccing some mac folks.

Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I cannot reproduce the problem.

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051024 Firefox/1.5.

Reporter, can you please check this again using a recent nighly build of Firefox: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8/

Comment 5

[Jason Bassford]

No patch / bug mentioned as the fix.  Possible dupe was also resolved as WORKSFORME.