Closed Bug 500806 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Plugins such as Flash player appear above page elements as raised by js/dhtml

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
All
FreeBSD
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: mdh, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009052210 Firefox/3.0.10 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009052210 Firefox/3.0.10 When raising a page element via DHTML or javascript, it sometimes appears "below" a plug-in. This is especially annoying using sites such as facebook which make extensive use of flash-based ads and dynamic pop-ups (such as the facebook notifications) via js/dhtml. I've seen this with yahoo email once or twice, too - any site with plug-ins. The fix would be to have page elements appear "above" plug-in elements. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Visit a page with dhtml/js "pop-ups" (not pop-up windows, but page elements which appear when triggering them.) 2.See pop-up element appear underneath flash or other plug-in element, rendering the pop-up page element unuseable. Expected Results: It seems that it would be more user-friendly to have triggered page elements appear above plug-in elements.
Which flash plugin version are you using ? Only Flash10 supports the windowless mode on X11 systems.
Flash 9. Macromedia doesn't care about FreeBSD users, so 10 isn't supported. Is it possible to get firefox to render the plugin underneath of page elements, though?
The issue is that the plugin must support the windowless mode. The flash plugin for windows did this for years but under X11 Adobe implemented it only with Version 10 of the plugin after bug 137189 got fixed. Without windowless mode the plugin paints itself in the plugin area of the page and you can only put some Html Elements like an Iframe over the Plugin Area. A Plugin painting in the windowless mode paints it's area through the browser and the browser can paint over that area. In short; you need a Flash10 Version for your OS. That is one of the reasons why the flash virus on the web sucks.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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