677055 - Alt + Key doesn't work with Flash Player swf fields and Firefox 4 - 5

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(External Software Affecting Firefox Graveyard :: Flash (Adobe), defect)

Description

[Nerdine Zermok]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110614 Firefox/3.6.18 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build ID: 20110614230723

Steps to reproduce:

press Alt + 9 to make a @ (french keyboard) in flash swf


Actual results:

all chars made with Alt + key
don't work


Expected results:

make a @

Comment 1

[Nerdine Zermok]

I just discovered that it's a flash player problem with wmode=transparent. and
firefox 4 and 5, safari and opera. (IE is ok)
the alt key fires well but the "@" char doesn't screen,
which is very ennoying since some international languages need to do Alt + key to make a "@"

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Ie is using a complete different plugin (ActiveX) and this seems to be a bug in the plugin itself.

Comment 3

[Nerdine Zermok]

weird since the last version of flash in firefox 3.6.18 works well.
the bug is apparently caused buy the param wmode=transparent and  wmode=opaque

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I'm closing a lot of bugs which are filed as Adobe Flash bugs which are either irrelevant, not actionable, or not serious enough to track in the Mozilla bug tracker. For the most part, Flash bugs should be filed in Adobe bugbase, and we'll only track a few highly-critical issues in the Mozilla tracker.