516344 - flash video players malfunction when using mac os x spaces

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 516249

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[nevermadness]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en; rv:1.9.0.15pre) Gecko/2009091300 Camino/2.0b4pre (like Firefox/3.0.15pre)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en; rv:1.9.0.15pre) Gecko/2009091300 Camino/2.0b4pre (like Firefox/3.0.15pre)

if a flash video player is active in the browser, and spaces is active, the video player with malfunction if you switch between spaces. 

the flash player will only register right clicks, even when left clicking to play, pause or scrub the timeline. 

only when switching between spaces with control + arrow key does the problem occur

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open any webpage with a flash video player such as youtube or adultswim
2. with spaces active press control and any arrow key to switch spaces
3. return to the browser using spaces, dont click the dock icon
4. click on the video player, it will only register right clicks when left clicking
Actual Results:  
the video player will display a contextual right click menu even when left clicking

Expected Results:  
player should perform normally. playing, pausing and scrubbing with left clicks

clicking on another application icon in the dock, and then clicking camino's icon fixes the problem

Comment 1

[philippe (part-time)]

Did you try the same with Firefox 3.0 or 3.5 ?

This could be a dupe of bug 516249.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Does this behaviour happen in any plugins other than Flash? It would be useful to know whether it's a general plugins bug or if it's specific to Flash, too.