301914 - flash objects randomly moving on the screen on page load

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Petr Soucek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050723
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050723

When visiting http://zpravy.idnes.cz/, during the page load the flash
advertisement is randomly appearing on several places on the screen, is flickering.

It is the same behavior as described in bug 291578, but bug 291578 is for
Firexox on Linux, and I use Mozilla on Windows 98 and Windows XP. It seems to be
platform independent.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://zpravy.idnes.cz/

Actual Results:  
During page load, flash objects are diplaying on random places.

Expected Results:  
They should appear on the right place only.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

wfm with a current trunk build, reopen if you still can reproduce this with a
current build (like current SeaMonkey trunk).

Comment 2

[Petr Soucek]

I cannot verify this because current trunk builds of Mozilla Seamonkey like
seamonkey-1.0a.en-US.win32.installer.exe does not work on Windows 98 - just logo
appears for a fraction of second and then dies quietly. I worry to install it on
my main Windows XP computer.

Is there any possibility to backport the fix to 1.7.x ?

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

No i just looked a bit around this probably related to the Widget caching bug
fix, no way this fix can be backported to Mozilla 1.7.x

Comment 4

[Petr Soucek]

Thank you for your comment, in the meantime I was able to find bug 301043 and
the workaround - installing with additional parameter:
seamonkey-1.0a.en-US.win32.installer.exe  -greLocal 
This enabled me to run the SeaMonkey - and the problem is really fixed there.