604739 - Cannot type keyboard input into any flash/flex text input field

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 587667

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Fred Hart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101015 Firefox/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101015 Firefox/4.0b8pre

All flash applications that offer text input do not seem to respond to the keyboard in Firefox 4b6 and 4b8pre. All sites I have tried exhibit the same symptoms. All work fine in Firefox 3.6. Flash version 10.1.53.64

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on any flash text input field
2. Attempt to type something
3.
Actual Results:  
App does not respond to keyboard input

Expected Results:  
Should see text as it is entered into the text field

Not sure if it's Firefox 4 or the Flash player version, but it does work in Firefox 3.6 with flash player 10.1.85.3 (and IE)

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

This appears to be related to bug 571537 which should be fixed. Steven mentioned in bug 587667 IME problems:

<quote>The most likely cause is that the Flash plugin doesn't yet support the
protocol implemented by the patch for bug 512886
(https://wiki.mozilla.org/NPAPI:CocoaEventModel#Text_Input).</quote>

Is that the case here?

Fred, urls to an example would certainly help us determine the issue you are seeing.

Comment 2

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Sounds like this bug may be a dup of bug 587667.

Check it's regression range.

Comment 3

[Fred Hart]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This appears to be related to bug 571537 which should be fixed. Steven
> mentioned in bug 587667 IME problems:
> 
> <quote>The most likely cause is that the Flash plugin doesn't yet support the
> protocol implemented by the patch for bug 512886
> (https://wiki.mozilla.org/NPAPI:CocoaEventModel#Text_Input).</quote>
> 
> Is that the case here?
> 
> Fred, urls to an example would certainly help us determine the issue you are
> seeing.

I used Oracle's support site: https://support.oracle.com. You have to login to get to the flash content and you'll have to register if you don't have a login, but that's one that demonstrates the issue. We have some as yet unreleased pages at my company that demonstrate the issue as well.

Some of the comments indicate that people may have been looking for a patch from Adobe in the 10.1.x version of the plugin. I also tried a beta of the 10.2 flash plugin (10.2.161.23) on OSX 10.6 under Firefox 4b8 and it appears to work.

Comment 4

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

I'm going to go ahead and dup this to bug 587667.

We don't have access to any of your examples, Fred, so we can't use them.

> I also tried a beta of the 10.2 flash plugin (10.2.161.23) on OSX
> 10.6 under Firefox 4b8 and it appears to work.

This is encouraging, because it seems to show Adobe is aware of this
problem and will fix it in a future release.

Comment 5

[u429872]

This same behavior was reported in this bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604324

Here are my findings  that I posted there as well:

I've found that Flash Player 10.1.53.64 when used with Firefox versions 5.x and newer on the Mac (I haven't tested on Windows yet) I can confirm this bug. I tested with the following versions of Firefox for Mac with the results below:

v3.6.13 = GOOD
v5.0.1 = BAD
v7.0.1 = BAD
v8.0 = BAD

Again, this seems to be the case with only Flash Player version 10.1.53.64.