305848 - Address bar becomes innactive when mouse is placed over flash objects on webpages.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[vaporsky]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

The address bar becomes innactive when mouse is placed over flash objects on
webpages.  This becomes an issue when one highlights the text after http://www.
to enter a new website address and after highlighting one slightly moves the
mouse below the address bar over a flash banner ad or similar and you start
typing but the address bar does not respond.  Although the address bar curser
does still blink.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a website say http://www.linuxgames.com
2. Now highlight the "linuxgames.com" part with the mouse so that one may enter
a new address and move the mouse over the flash banner ad.
3. Type in a new address. (You really can't though)
Actual Results:  
The address bar does not respond to keyboard inputs when the mouse is over flash
objects.

Expected Results:  
The software should have been able to type in the new address just as in say IE
or the old Mozilla 1.7 and such.

Comment 1

[gstubbs18]

If a flash game or banner is clicked then the shortcut ctrl+l does not work and you may not change the address

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

I assume this is expected behaviour... you give focus to the plugin, so keystrokes go straight into it.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

That's definitely expected behavior. This is probably INVALID.