561462 - dialogs opened by OOP plugins on Mac OS X open behind the browser

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

With OOPP enabled on Mac and using 10.1rc2 flash I very often find that I cannot click on things in the flash. For example going to upload a video in youtube shows an "Upload video" button which is part of a flash movie, but clicking it does nothing. With OOPP disabled it works just fine.

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

http://wwwns.akamai.com/hdnetwork/demo/flash/default.html is a good testcase; you can't even *see* the Flash content until you mouse around constantly or click on the page; some kind of event-to-plugin thing.

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(BTW, seems to be just Flash, as Silverlight (http://wwwns.akamai.com/hdnetwork/demo/silverlight/default.html) and Octoshape (http://octoshape.com/?page=showcase/showcase) work fine.

Another test is that I can't even invoke a Flash context menu on http://zombo.com/.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> http://wwwns.akamai.com/hdnetwork/demo/flash/default.html is a good testcase;
> you can't even *see* the Flash content until you mouse around constantly or
> click on the page; some kind of event-to-plugin thing.

The visual problems are something else since I see those with OOPP disabled, maybe to do with bug 562410 since I saw similar things with flash crop up at the same time as that.

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Thanks to Marcia, I've found out that the 10.1 release candidate v4 works:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html#flashplayer10

Dave, can you see if that works for you, too?  Do note that Adobe asks that you run the uninstaller first.

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

10.1 rc4 still fails for me, it is showing in about:plugins as 10.1.53.38

Comment 6

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Try running the flash uninstaller that is linked from the download page - that may remedy the problem.

(In reply to comment #5)
> 10.1 rc4 still fails for me, it is showing in about:plugins as 10.1.53.38

Comment 7

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Try running the flash uninstaller that is linked from the download page - that
> may remedy the problem.

I did that first, does your version show as different to mine?

Comment 8

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Yes, we have the same version - 10.1.53.38. I was confused because I last installed RC2 and I thought it was the same ID as RC4, so I was confused about why the build ID was not changing in about:plugins. And to make it even more confusing they skipped from RC2->RC4. 

I will test again with RC4 and report back.

Comment 9

[Josh Aas]

Not being able to open a context menu is a different bug. I can't reproduce the problem here. I don't have a YouTube account so I haven't tried there.

Comment 10

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Not being able to open a context menu is a different bug. I can't reproduce the
> problem here. I don't have a YouTube account so I haven't tried there.

Try the "browse" button on http://imageshack.us/; that doesn't work for me.

Comment 11

[Josh Aas]

(In reply to comment #10)
> Try the "browse" button on http://imageshack.us/; that doesn't work for me.

I can reproduce with that, thanks.

Comment 12

[Josh Aas]

I think I see what is happening here. The plugin is responding to the button by opening a dialog and the dialog is opening behind the browser because the plugin process is ordered behind the browser. Move the browser window and you'll see the dialog.

Comment 13

[Benoit Girard (:BenWa)]

(In reply to comment #12)
Yup that is exactly what I see. I wonder if this is the same underlying problem as the dock showing up when we set flash video full-screen.

Comment 14

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Josh: do we have the start of a patch / solution here? This is a beta3 blocker, and there's been no activity for the past 9 days.

Comment 15

[Josh Aas]

This is being worked on. The solution here will share interposing code with bug 577494.

Comment 16

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Do we expect it to be resolved by beta3 code freeze, which is Monday Aug 2?

Comment 17

[Josh Aas]

No, we should move this to beta 4.

Comment 18

[Benoit Girard (:BenWa)]

I included the fix for this in my patch for Bug 577494. This is fixed with my trunk build.