354952 - Using Flash IM window app disables keyboard input in main window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 355071

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Luke deGruchy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060918 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060918 Firefox/2.0

Firefox 2.0 RC1 ONLY:  When I use the Flash-based chat in the plentyoffish.com personals website, when I switch back to the main window, they keyboard input no longer works.  The is a bug with Firefox 2.0 RC1.  It is not a bug in 1.5, so this has nothing to do with Flash, since I didn't change Flash versions.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Visit plentyoffish.com and log into your account.
2.  Initiate IM with any other user.
3.  Switch back to the main window and attempt to type in the addressbar.

Actual Results:  
Lose keyboard input until I command-tab back out and back into Firefox.

Expected Results:  
Keyboard input should function.

As soon as the user in the Flash IM window sends a new message, or any other activity takes place in that window, keyboard input is disabled.

Comment 1

[Shawn Stanley]

Caused by YouTube flash, too.  Occurs in released version of Firefox 2.0.  Another work-around: open another Firefox window, then close it, and keyboard focus is restored to current window.

Looks as though keyboard focus is "stolen" by Flash window/tab and dies with it when closed.

Comment 2

[Hiro]

Dup of bug355071 perhaps.

Comment 3

[Hiro]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 355071 ***