Gnash plugin stalls, takes keyboard accelerators with it.

[Joe Blaylock]

I'm using Gutsy, dist-upgraded about 14:30 EST.

Install gnash, install mozilla-plugin-gnash. Make sure you have no other flash installed. Restart firefox and go to http://www.orisinal.com. You'll find that none of the flash games there, for example http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bugs.htm, works. This is my #1 use of flash, and I suspect a lot of other peoples', too. But this isn't the real reason I'm filing.

If you go to that "Bugs" URL, you'll see the "loading... please wait" message. I didn't necessarily think that gnash should be fully flash compatible yet (though it is a bug that they're not.) What I'm really complaining about is that while you're looking at that "please wait" message, the browser hotkeys don't work as expected. ^T doesn't open a new tab, for example. Nor does ^F start a search. The gnash plugin shouldn't co-opt the keyboard that way. Obviously, you can click on another tab and your hotkeys work fine again. But it's a usability problem that you have to do that. You can't, after all, use the hotkeys to switch to another tab...

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.