371878 - Flash buttons not clickable

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Kaddiern Sauvage]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

On some Flash content, buttons are not clickable anymore. The cursor seems to "blink" when you move the mouse, since it becomes hand-like, then arrow-like, then hand-like, and so on. You cannot click on the button if you are not moving the mouse...

Before 2.0.0.2 version, it worked normaly (clickable, hand cursor, no blinking), as on other browsers.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
When you put your cursor above a Flash button, instead of becoming a hand, the cursor remains an arrow (meaning "not clickable"). When moving, the cursor seems to "blink" since its state alternates between hand and arrow / clickable and not-clickable...
You cannot click on the button when the cursor is immobile.

Expected Results:  
The button is clickable and the cursor is a hand when you are above it.

Everything worked fine on Firefox 2.0.0.1, but not when I installed the newer version on both my computers (same effect on both of them, on the given site).
I also tried on several browsers (Opera & IE) to see, and FF 2.0.0.2 is the only one getting this bug...

Everything works fine again, when I put back the 2.0.0.1 version :/

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

This is a regression between 2006-11-29:09 and 2006-11-29:13.
Checkins: http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?module=PhoenixTinderbox&date=explicit&mindate=2006-11-29+08%3A00&maxdate=2006-11-29+14%3A00

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: flash file needed for testcase

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This reregressed on trunk and branch.
This was fixed by the patch for bug 271442 on trunk and branch, so that's why it works in Firefox2.0.0.1 (you could see the bug with Firefox2.0.0.0).
The patch for bug 357736 has regressed this again, so that's why you can see this bug again in Firefox2.0.0.2 (and trunk).

Kaddiern, if you're the owner of the website, you can avoid the bug quite easily by removing 'overflow:auto' from '#flashcontent' in http://www.lesexpertsdelaprudence.fr/style.css

Comment 5

[Kaddiern Sauvage]

Thanks, the CSS has been modified :)
It works now. Thank you for your reactvity.

(In reply to comment #4)
> This reregressed on trunk and branch.
> This was fixed by the patch for bug 271442 on trunk and branch, so that's why
> it works in Firefox2.0.0.1 (you could see the bug with Firefox2.0.0.0).
> The patch for bug 357736 has regressed this again, so that's why you can see
> this bug again in Firefox2.0.0.2 (and trunk).
> 
> Kaddiern, if you're the owner of the website, you can avoid the bug quite
> easily by removing 'overflow:auto' from '#flashcontent' in
> http://www.lesexpertsdelaprudence.fr/style.css
> 

Comment 6

[dolphinling]

I don't see this in latest trunk *or* a build from that time period. Is this still an issue?

Comment 7

[helnoisemaker]

This bug appeared several months ago after I apdated my Firefox 6. Now I have Firefox 11 - bug is still not fixed.

As example, when I hover mouse over Volume button on Youtube player, volume slider doesn't appear. Other buttons work ok on Youtube.
This bug appears on some flash games too. Triplejack Poker, as example. Most buttons work ok, but some are hard to click because blinking cursor.

Comment 8

[Abe - QA (:Abe_LV)]

Not reproducible for me in win-7 64-bits with latest Firefox release and Nightly.  Closing this as works for me.
If anyone can still reproduce this issue, please reopen the bug and add information. Thanks

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