442428 - Flash problem

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[SUNIL]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; FDM; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

after opening Inbox in yahoo.co.in when we want to see any mail Flash player advertisements occupy a lot of space on screen and we are unable to use mouse over a large area of screen.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Yahoo.co.in email account
2.Try to open any mail. Mouse will not work over a large area
3.But this is not case when using Internet Explorer
Actual Results:  
Mouse not usable

Expected Results:  
Mouse should work

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

This is not a Mozilla bug.

If Yahoo!'s ads are causing problems on occasion, go report it to them.
And when it comes to flash, that's not Mozilla-related either.

Regardless, if you're using Firefox I suggest trying Adblock plus:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
(this is what it was made for)