549206 - arrow keys don't work in flash with firefox 3.6 and flash 10.0.32.18

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Rallias Ubernerd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

I was recently playing a Neopets game, named Jelly Blobs of Doom, after upgrading firefox from 3.5.8 to 3.6.?, and went to play Neopets in a Private Browsing session, and for whatever reason, it wouldn't accept input from the arrow keys in flash. I am using an iBook G4, and didn't have this problem with previous versions of firefox. I used numerous other things based on flash that use arrow keys, like the same websites Mecca Chase 2, and other websites things, such as Kingory, and got the same result. However, when I went to playing Runescape, a Java based game, it worked just fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0.#Note:Issue not tested in 'public browsing'#
1.Go to Jelly Blobs of Doom
2.Press New game
3.Press Space Bar to Continue
4.Try to avoid the giant jelly blobs by moving with your arrow keys.
Actual Results:  
The game continued as normal, all the blobs moving properly, but the jelly dino didn't move, and got swallowed up by a bigger bit of jelly

Expected Results:  
I should have been able to move and evade the jelly.

Installation is standard, with shockwave flash version noted above.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

What flash version do you have?

Comment 2

[jabriel.yareth]

Firefox has no key to copy link since 88. It was removed and not replaced. This is completely unreasonable.

A replacement key that is unusable by human hands is not a replacement. It's not unlike telling people they can vote, if they stand in line for 8 hours without water. That is telling people that they can't vote.

Telling people that there is a new key, but it's across the room where NO ONE, NO HUMAN HAND can reach, is telling them that there is no key.

Firefox has NO KEY to copy link currently.

There was no reason to break this, and I want you to know that I am never going to stop reporting it.

You broke a browser that millions of people depended on for NO REASON. NO REASON. There was NO REASON TO REMOVE THE HOTKEY TO COPY LINKS FROM FIREFOX.

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Comment 3

[u597032]

Flash is no longer supported