Closed Bug 63182 Opened 24 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Flash plugin (version < 6) context menu doesn't disappear on click, like other right click menus

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P4)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: stas-bugzilla, Assigned: srgchrpv)

References

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URL
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Details

(Whiteboard: [PL2:P4]) 

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001205
BuildID:    2000120518

When I invoke right-click menu on Flash picture, it's pretty hard to make it
disappear. It doesn't disappear on left click on areas outside Flash applet,
neither on right click on any place. This is very unlike the behaviour of other
menues, that disappear on any click outside menu area.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.macromedia.com/
2. right-click on flash picture
3. try to remove the menu that appear with left-clicking other part of the
window or right-clicking again.

Actual Results:  menu doesn't disappear

Expected Results:  menu disappears on any click ouside menu area

Flash 4 plugin was downloaded today from Macromedia site.
Keywords: flash
I am confirming this bug. Does ot happen all the time. Sometimes clicking out of 
the plugin area makes the popup go away but sometimes it does not work. Build 
1215 trunk and 1211 branch.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
CC:ing Chris Saari as he knows a lot about events.
works okay on MacOS, but I did notice that popups seem to be behaving strangely
on linux so it might be a general problem.
Flash crasher or backward incompatibility bug. Nominating for nsbeta1 as
high-quality plug-in support is a priority for embedded applications.
Keywords: nsbeta1
Reassigning to serge and moving to m0.9.1
Assignee: av → serge
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla0.9.1
I do not think this is mozilla bug,
flash plugin itself responsible for what it's doing,
besides I was unable to reproduce this with flash 5.0 r47.
Shrirang could you try it. Thanks.
The way to make sure this is the case would be to compare the behaviour with 
4.x. Shiriang, would you try this please?
My findings: 
4.x browser : When I right click inside the plugin area, I get a context menu 
for the plugin which can be dismissed by left clicking inside/outside the plugin 
area. 
Right clicking to dismiss the menu does not work in 4.x either.

6.x(0319 trunk) :  When I right click inside the plugin area, I get a context 
menu for the plugin which can be dismissed ONLY by left clicking inside the 
plugin area(left click outside the plugin area does not dismiss the context 
menu)
Also, Right clicking to dismiss the menu does not work in 6.x too.

So, I guess the bug is still present.
By 
>Right clicking to dismiss the menu does not work in 4.x either.

I meant, " Right clicking to dismiss the menu does not work in 4.x "
Let me try to explain what's going on in there, 
4.x itself does Xt based event model, the same as flash plugin, and this is the 
point. In contrast 6.x bases on gdk/gtk events, so 4.x would be correct compare 
with 6.x if you'll click outside of 4.x navigator window.
Setting target milestone to 0.9.2 (check it in anytime, even before, when the
tree is open for). Per PDT triage.
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.1 → mozilla0.9.2
Priority: -- → P2
Off to 0.9.3.
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.2 → mozilla0.9.3
Doesn't look like this is getting fixed before the freeze tonight.
Pushing out a milestone.  Please correct if I'm mistaken.
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.3 → mozilla0.9.4
I'm removing TM.
I'm sure Xlib port of mozilla doesn't show this problem, and I doubt there is
easy fix for gtk based mozilla, if there is one. 
ccing: aruner.
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.4 → ---
Blocks: 104166
*** Bug 118967 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Adding the phrases 'context menu' and 'right click menu' to the summary for
querying.

Also nominating for 0.9.9 - this is a highly visible bug and highly annoying
once encountered.  On my machine, the menu stays present even if I switch
workspaces to one where Mozilla is nowhere near.
Keywords: mozilla0.9.9
Summary: Flash plugin menu doesn't disappear on click, like other menus → Flash plugin context menu doesn't disappear on click, like other right click menus
*** Bug 107082 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
some sites strip the context menu to one line, which makes it impossible to 
dismiss the window in any way (astalavista), since the only way to dismiss the 
menu is to click in one of the division bars in the menu. also, there are 2 
kinds of flash possible, just loading the swf is one, and embedding it in html 
is the other. see the just recently duped bugs for more info
*** Bug 126891 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
annoying bug..nomination for nsbeta1
Keywords: nsbeta1
nsbeta- per ADT Triage for plugins; moving out to 1.2
Keywords: nsbeta1 → nsbeta1-
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.2
*** Bug 136051 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 143667 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 148529 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Priority: P2 → P4
Whiteboard: [PL2:P4]
Target Milestone: mozilla1.2alpha → Future
*** Bug 161004 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Does bug 159315 have the same nature?

according to comments in bug 58339 this is fixed in the beta of version 6
(implying that it's a plugin problem)

It is a bug in the Flash 5 player.  It is fixed in Flash 6. 
Well, the Macromedia home page is quite the opposite to user-friendly, so I
might miss it, but I only find version 5 for Linux.

pi
Using Mozilla 1.1 for Linux, I've noted that not only does the right click popup
menu not disappear unless you change something (like declick play), it will
remain there even if you browse to a different page or minimize the window (menu
shows up on the desktop).  Clicking reload on the same page, however, does make
the menu disappear.
flash 6 beta fixes this, also fixes crash on remote display
Removing outdated mozilla0.9.9 keyword.

Increasing severity. When it happened it was in front of all windows and hence
blocked every action in this area.

Flash 6 beta is available at:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/special/beta/

It fixes the problem. Adjusting summary.

Should we mark this bug now as WFM?

pi
Severity: minor → major
Keywords: mozilla0.9.9
Summary: Flash plugin context menu doesn't disappear on click, like other right click menus → Flash plugin (version < 6) context menu doesn't disappear on click, like other right click menus
based on previous two comments, marking as wfm

Installing the newest version of Flash 6 resolves this issue
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
*** Bug 184415 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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