Some flash widgets are not obscured by overlapping windows
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flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
With the latest update to flashplugin-
If a flash player is visible on a web page, then placing another window (e.g. a terminal) on top of it does not obscure it from view, i.e. it shows inside the terminal window. The same thing happens if I switch to another tab in the browser - the flash player is still present in the same position as it has in the other tab.
The flash widget is not rendered completely on top of everything else; text and images are typically still rendered on top of the player (with nonmatching antialiasing), as are most window decorations, and e.g. tables with background colors if another browser window overlaps the widget.
When the web page containing the flash widget is scrolled, the widget scrolls with it correctly. If the widget then is scrolled partly out of the browser window, it obscures parts of the browser window itself as well, it can e.g. show inside the address bar if it's scrolled up.
The bug does not affect all flash applications - I've seen it with smaller youtube players such as the one on http://
I'm running Natty and thus a Gnome 2 environment. Firefox is 11.0+build1-
Update: Just noticed that the flash application may do something that corrects the problem while it's running. E.g. switching the youtube player to fullscreen and back makes it behave correctly.