Firefox-3.0 intermittently drops keyboard input from flash

[Dan Lawson]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Package Version: 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
Dist Version: 9.04

When playing a game in Firefox-3.0 (Version), keyboard input to flash player will be intermittently dropped. For example, in the game Platform Racer 2, at:

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Jiggmin/platform-racing-2

If you press and hold the down arrow, your character should charge a high jump, until you let go. You should be able to hold the down arrow for a minute without jumping. As it is now, after a couple of seconds, you will 'let go' and your character will jump (aka the flash player stopped getting the down arrow keypress). This can make for some very jittery gameplay.

This only started occurring after I upgraded to 9.04. I've tested with an upgraded 64-bit install, and a fresh 32-bit install.

The issue does not happen with Opera using the same flash plugin.

Also, this is not a duplicate of:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/243856

but may be related to something that was done to fix that bug.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Please update your system. your firefox is not up to date.
Please try other game sites to see if you can reproduce this on any flash gmae.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

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!