755743 - HTML Input fields are unresponsive when laid over flash

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

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

Description

[Todd Kennedy]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Build ID: 20120420145725

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to login while watching a movie at vimeo.com, while using the vimeo flash player
URL: http://vimeo.com/42065164

Also, developing a bookmarklet for my company -- kept running into an issue where when we place HTML <input> tags on a layer over a Flash move (where wmode is set to either transparent or opaque), the input fields no longer accept input (pressing any key while focused on the form field does nothing).


Actual results:

Entered username wrong, submitted form.  Login failed.  Tried to go back and edit my username.  Text field is no longer accepting input


Expected results:

Text field should have accepted input.

Comment 1

[Todd Kennedy]

This is verified working as in Chrome 18 - 19 beta and Safari 5.1.7.  Form fields are editable when overlaid on Flash movies.

Comment 2

[Andre Klapper]

Might be related to bug 78414.

Comment 3

[u279076]

Does this reproduce with the latest Nightly?
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central

What version of Flash do you have installed?

Comment 4

[Todd Kennedy]

Flash version:  11.2.202.235 (from about:plugins)

And yes, this still occurs in this nightly build:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:15.0) Gecko/15.0 Firefox/15.0a1

Comment 5

[u279076]

I suspect, as with Andre, that this is either a dupe of or very closely related to bug 78414.

Comment 6

[Todd Kennedy]

Perhaps, but there is no work around - you can't click out of the flash content to allow input - it never receives keystrokes 

And Jesus that bug is almost old enough to buy alcohol.

Comment 7

[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.