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[courtier]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

The information on this page is shown properly using FF3 under Windows, but only appears momentarily under FF3 Ubuntu 8.04.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 31 11:22:40 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

[Marcus Asshauer (mcas)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. Which plugins have you installed? Which flash package do you have installed?

[JasonSpradlin82 (jaspradlin)]

This is obviously a problem with the Parameter "wmode" having a Value of "transparent". This parameter is designed to allow HTML with a higher z-index than an SWF module to overlap the SWF (z-index actually might not apply at all... it might be that ALL html will overlap the SWF).

Another example can be seen at www.streamingfaith.com/gospel. We coded the SWF video player with WMODE=Transparent so that the dropdown menus at the top of the page wouldn't be cut off by the Vidego flash video player. It works fine in all windows browsers. However, in firefox 3 for linux with Adobe flash player, the wmode=transparent doesn't seem to work at all.

This bug should probably be entitled, "flash parameter wmode=transparent is ineffectual in FF3 for linux"

Jason Spradlin

[JasonSpradlin82 (jaspradlin)]

Same problem occurs here:

http://www.communitymx.com/content/source/E5141/wmodetrans.htm

This page was specifically designed to demonstrate how "WMODE=Transparent" works.

When you mouseover the words "DHTML Trigger" a text box pops up that is supposed to OVERLAP the flash player. instead, as with the other pages listed in this thread, the flash player overlaps the DHTML content

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Works properly in jaunty with Flash 10 and Firefox 3.1 and Firefox 3.0.