471068 - Switching to fullscreen flash video activates the IME

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(External Software Affecting Firefox Graveyard :: Flash (Adobe), defect)

Description

[Alan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

I have Japanese IME (input method editor) installed so I can type Japanese, but I normally just type in English. If I visit a site that has flash video, such as YouTube, and then view the video in fullscreen mode, then the IME becomes enabled in firefox, and I have to manually turn it back off so I can keep typing in English.
It is particularly annoying when I go to type in the address bar and Japanese appears, because english characters are always used for URLs anyways.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have IME disabled.
2. View flash video in fullscreen.
3. IME becomes enabled.



I dont know if this bug is in flash or in Firefox, but it's definitely annoying. I've heard others complain about it as well.

Comment 1

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

This is flash player's bug probably. Because I could reproduce this bug on Opera too. And even if I set a break point to nsWindow::SetIMEOpenState on debug build, but the debugger didn't break at that time. So, we don't change the IME open state.

The same report was reported in bugzilla-jp too.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.gr.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=6218

-> INVA

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I'm closing a lot of bugs which are filed as Adobe Flash bugs which are either irrelevant, not actionable, or not serious enough to track in the Mozilla bug tracker. For the most part, Flash bugs should be filed in Adobe bugbase, and we'll only track a few highly-critical issues in the Mozilla tracker.