47283 - Loading this page causes endless re-paints of embedded element

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[Daniel Bambach]

When visiting this page in Moz build 2000073120:

The FLash plugin was not installed in the browser. When moving the mouse around
the page, the 'Get Plugin' block gets painted all over the screen and is then
cleared.

Also somewhat random Javascript Alerts are generated using HTML text from within
the page.

Sorry I can't be of more use in resolving this bug... no time.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

testing with linux 2000-080120
Probably several bugs on this page:
some animated gif thing seems involved, iframes scollbar confusion, and a flash
bug which is the most appearant.

WITHOUT flash:
Already during load scrollbars appear/vanish and try to lay out in several
different ways before it settles down and gets it ...kinda wrong.

-pluging download pluging request appeared (as it "kinda" should for now, since
neither that nor flash was installed)

-The background behind the top banner blinks now and then, briefly displaying
fractions of the banner, but outside the banner area.
-content of cells in column on right sice is partly overlapping
-various links that should activate flash instead produce alert-boxes

Deleted cache and tested again:

WITH flash:
-same odd scrollbar behaviour during initial load
-now larger areas of page blink: white blocks and exerpts of top banner graphic
 continously appar/vanish in the various table-cells on the page.
-content of cells in column on right sice is NOT overlapping anymore
-various links that should activate flash STILL produce only alert-boxes

--
Alerts appear when mousing over white "menuitem" links on blue background near
top of page. (Also white links under red icons on left side)
The content of the alert boxes are what in NC4.7 display as small "sliding"
boxes with info about the link.

Worse: Since alert-box must be dismissed before one can click a link,
there is in reality no way to access these links, since alertbox appears on
mouseover.

This whole page also gets an extra set of right/bottom scrollbars.

Confirming bug for now, OS: All.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

umm confirming

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This bug has several problems.  First, the page uses layers which arent
supported in mozilla.  Second, the page has a number missing or extra table
related tags.  and third this bug covers more than one issue and bug reports
should address a specific issue.   Settling this to the Flash issue and sending
to Plugins.

Comment 4

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Future. Edge case. Both bad markup and unsupported proprietary DOM extensions
(Layers). A simplified test case that eliminated the bad markup & DOM extensions
would be a great help! qawanted

Comment 5

[Jon Califf]

The original page listed in this bug displays correctly now. Apparently
key3media fixed their part to make it work with Mozilla. I think that someone
familiar with the problem will probably need to find/create something to work
from...

Comment 6

[rubydoo123]

no plug-in on the current page

Comment 7

[shrirang khanzode]

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