448133 - Flash ads open without rollover and won't close, obscuring page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 335974

(Camino Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Andrew Meehan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080512 Camino/1.6.1 (MultiLang) (like Firefox/2.0.0.14)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080512 Camino/1.6.1 (MultiLang) (like Firefox/2.0.0.14)

On all of the Gawker websites (gizmodo/jalopnik/i09/etc), the expanding flash ads used are being activated without rolling over the ad location. The ads then close, but the page remains obscured by a white box in the ad's "expanded" location. This has happened repeatedly for weeks, but as the ads rotate, the effects change. It is clear that the ads are being triggered by Camino when loading the page and not a physical mouseover.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to Jalopnik.com
2.Be annoyed by pop-out flash ad
3.Done
Actual Results:  
The Flash ads go crazy, blocking content on the page.

Expected Results:  
Flash ads stay in place unless clicked on or moused over.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I've never seen this when browsing with the ad-blocker turned on, at least not that I recall. Are you still seeing this? (Do you have ad blocking turned on?)

Comment 2

[Andrew Meehan]

This is with ad blocking turned off, and it is occurring frequently around the web, not isolated to these pages.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I'm not sure that's really a bug in the browser; it sounds like a bug in their rollover code.

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

I don't see any of those Flash ads on the linked site with ad-blocking OFF (could it be limited to some geographical regions ?).
But it could be one of the Flash painting issues that pester Camino 1.6 (Flash wmMode=transparent). Gecko 1.9 (Fx 3, Camino 2) has much better handling of this kind of things.

Comment 5

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

It's also possible that this is being triggered by an onLoad event or the like; that's a common practice, although I've been unable to reproduce the offending behavior there in several tries.

Comment 6

[Stuart Morgan]

Given the description, I think this is probably a duplicate of bug 335974; it sounds like the ads aren't actually closing, but doing the white Flash thing.