Tab that contains Flash Player leaves artifacts on other tabs.

[Kevin Ford]

If multiple tabs are open and one of those contains flash content, the other tabs that do not have flash content will be broken.

Here is an example...
 - Assume a tab with flash has the flash player at a 100x100 pixel square region, starting at location 20,20 pixels from top left of page

 - a non-flash tab will render the page fine. When you attempt to scroll, however, the page will scroll except for a 100x100 pixel square region, starting at location 20,20 pixels from top left of page. This part will simply not scroll. It does NOT contain the content from the tab that had the flash content, it just simply does not scroll.

 - If, while this "broken scrolling" is occurring, I close the tab that contains the flash content, the broken tab immediately corrects itself and the correct content that was masked by the flash region described above, refreshed to the right content. This does NOT require a page refresh -- it just appears right immediately upon closing the tab with the flash content.

This bug might belong in the flash plugin package, I'm not sure, so feel free to move it as required.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jun 28 10:45:03 2011
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
 flashplugin-installer 10.3.181.26ubuntu0.11.04.1
 adobe-flashplugin N/A
 icedtea-plugin N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Alex (chewytree)]

Thanks for reporting this bug! I have the exact same issue, and i think it might be the flash plugin aswell.

[Alex (chewytree)]

Also, I use google chrome and the same thing happens. So i dont think its a broswer issue.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hey kdford,

You filed this bug report against natty, but I see it's still open and
doesn't appear to have much activity recently. So, now that oneiric
is released and stable, this may be a good point for you to upgrade
and re-test if this issue is still present there.

If it's solved in the new release and you think it's worth backporting
the fix, please indicate that. Or if having the fix in the new release
is good enough, feel free to close out the bug (or let us know and we'll
close it.)

If it's not solved, leave the bug report open. I can't promise we'll
get to it (we get way more bugs filed than we can usually get to), but
your testing and feedback can help out if and when we do.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.