Bug 148984 - Macromedia Flash Player 7 displays in foreground instead of background
Summary: Macromedia Flash Player 7 displays in foreground instead of background
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
: 142577 (view as bug list)
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Firefox (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Linux
: P5 - None : Normal
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Reported: 2006-02-08 03:38 UTC by Quentin Jackson
Modified: 2008-06-25 09:53 UTC (History)
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Description Quentin Jackson 2006-02-08 03:38:06 UTC 
The problem with this is that quite often a menu that may be above the flash animation is hidden when it drops down.  I have found this quite often as of recent times.  Currently this can be seen on www.quicken.co.nz on their front page.  Try clicking on any of the menu's above the 'where are you going with quicken' animation and you will see what I mean.  I'm using Firefox 1.5.01 but I think this was also present in prior versions and has remained after a re-install.
Comment 1 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2006-02-08 09:20:43 UTC 
Robert, any idea? I don't think that this is a Firefox problem but more a Flash problem.
Comment 2 Robert O'Callahan 2006-02-08 19:40:25 UTC 
It is a problem that is very hard to fix and if fixed at all, will be fixed upstream some time in the future.

(The problem is that Flash wants to display in an X window and we have no way to draw our content over the top of that window. At some point we will use XDamage and XComposite to get around this.)
Comment 3 Quentin Jackson 2006-02-08 20:41:36 UTC 
I just tested and see that this does also appear in Opera.  However should this not be left open and re-assigned to another team somewhere so that it is not forgotten?  It's actually quite a big problem and the only workaround I can think of is to uninstall flash.
Comment 4 Robert O'Callahan 2006-02-08 20:53:48 UTC 
Implementing windowless plugin support for X (in both Gecko and Flash) would fix this: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137189. More likely the fix will come with upstream plugins work that does not yet have a specific bug filed, as far as I know.
Comment 5 Quentin Jackson 2006-02-08 21:04:28 UTC 
Forgive my ignorance as I am not a programmer, but I only half understand that.  Are you asking me to point a link to this bug from the bug listed above?
Comment 6 Robert O'Callahan 2006-02-08 21:11:31 UTC 
I'm not asking you to do anything. The problem is known, how to solve it is known, and the work will get done upstream, eventually. It will not be forgotten.
Comment 7 Quentin Jackson 2006-02-08 21:22:43 UTC 
Thanks get it now ;}
Comment 8 Klaus Singvogel 2006-03-06 08:44:48 UTC 
*** Bug 142577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:35:24 UTC 
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
Comment 10 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:37:32 UTC 
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
Comment 11 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:42:08 UTC 
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
Comment 12 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:53:33 UTC 
Closing old LATER+REMIND bugs as WONTFIX - if you still plan to work on it, feel free to reopen and set to ASSIGNED.

In case the report saw repeated reopen comments, it's due to bugzilla timing out on the huge request ;(