372104 - overlap error between macromedia flash plugin and dhtml

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 137189

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[giancarlo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061205 Iceweasel/2.0.0.1 (Debian-2.0.0.1+dfsg-4)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061205 Iceweasel/2.0.0.1 (Debian-2.0.0.1+dfsg-4)

Imagine a html page where a dhtml menu is above flash animation (with macromedia plugin player v7/v9). The overlap trouble rise when a html component is overlapped to flash animation, for example when mouse is over the html element (with js script) and, due to click, menu rollout.
In these situations happen that flash animation is in foreground and html component in background rather than the opposite, namely html on top of the stack followed by flash animation .

I've found this firefox behaviour in GNU/Linux platform whereas in Windows behave correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. http://uk.asus.com/ and move mouse over "Product" on top.
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Actual Results:  
html elements are in background and flash animation in foreground

Expected Results:  
html elements in foreground followed by animation

Googling I've found this TechNote by Macromedia http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15523 where the problem could be the stack order (z-index value). I think this is not the case of the problem because the behaviour change (with the same version of firefox) with OS.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I can't reproduce it on Windows XP, not even with Firefox 2.0.0.1 and the latest flash version. Does it also fail with Firefox 2.0.0.2? http://www.mozilla.com/

Comment 2

[giancarlo]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I can't reproduce it on Windows XP [...]

I've reproduced it with:
- Firefox/Iceweasel [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061205 Iceweasel/2.0.0.1] on Debian;
- Mozilla/Iceape [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061219 Iceape/1.0.7 (Debian-1.0.7-3)] on Debian;
- Seamonkey [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it-IT; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20060906 SUSE/1.8_seamonkey_1.0.7-1.1 SeaMonkey/1.0.7] on Opensuse.