450505 - right click context menu on flash player blanks the screen

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Supriya Rao]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

FF3 blanks the stage during the PopUpMenuSelect call.
When context menu is up after PopUpMenuSelect() is called, FF3 either does not update flash content or blank (black) the stage since its not in focus.
Does not happen in FF2

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open one of the following URLs using FF3 on Mac OS X
http://www.mt-rainier-cl.com/index.html#/Top/1/
http://cnettv.cnet.com/9742-1_53-50003221.html?tag=cnetfd.vid
www.sonypictures.jp/movies/theincrediblehulk/site/index_flash.html
2. Let the video load and start playing
3. Right click on the video


Actual Results:  
the flash player's screen blanks out.
If it doesn't happen the first time, keep trying at different locations on the video

Expected Results:  
no blanking out of the screen

FF3 blanks the stage during the PopUpMenuSelect call.
When context menu is up after PopUpMenuSelect() is called, FF3 either does not update flash content or blank (black) the stage since its not in focus.
Does not happen in FF2

Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Same thing happens in Safari, on both OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.4.  On
both OSes I tested with the current version of the Flash plugin (from
Apple) -- 9.0 r124.

So this isn't a Firefox bug.  Instead it's presumably a Flash bug or
an Apple bug.

Comment 2

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

This bug should be marked INVALID ... but I can't figure out how to do that in the new version of bugzilla :-(

Comment 3

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Figured it out.

Comment 4

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Something I should clarify:

I never saw the Flash video "blank out".  But (after the context menu
appeared) the Flash content always stopped being updated.