flashplugin-nonfree: renders menus and popups under animation

[Joe Harrington]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

go to techtarget.com

mouse over nav tabs on left

menus pop up *under* image on right, making them unusable (see screenshot). Should appear over anything that was in the window before, and completely on screen.

same when trying to use the reservations feature on visitdirectair.com

firefox 3.0.7

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009030423 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.7

hardy (don't have access to later, sorry)

--jh--

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

This is consistently reproducible at visitdirectair.com, and also at capitalone.com

How to reproduce:
1) Visit http://visitdirectair.com
2) Click on the button to select a date
3) calendar popup appear under the flash animation to the right of it.

This also happens at capitalone.com with the dropdown menus, so it does not look like an isolated problem with the visitdirectair.com website.

To reproduce:
1) Visit capitalone.com
2) Hover the mouse over the horizontal menu items on top.
3) Menu dropdowns are occluded by the flash animation below them.

This is not a firefox problem, since Opera on Ubuntu Hardy with the flash plugin behaves in a similar fashion.
None of these problems appear when testing with Windows Vista, and Firefox.

Changed the bug to be attributed to the flashplugin-nonfree package.
Does Adobe have a bugtracker for their flash plugin that this bug can be upstreamed to? My search yielded nothing. Please let me know if you know the right way to forward the bug upstream and I will.

Installed package information appended below.

carthik@ying:~$ apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree
flashplugin-nonfree:
  Installed: 10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1~hardy1+really9.0.124.0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1~hardy1+really9.0.124.0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1~hardy1+really9.0.124.0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     9.0.159.0ubuntu1~hardy1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Packages
     9.0.124.0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Found the Adobe flashplayer bug tracker :) (just wasn't looking right earlier).
https://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Will forward upstream.

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

The 10.0.22.87 version of the flash plugin available from Adobe fixes this issue. None of the bugs are reproducible with that specific version of the plugin. This version is already available for Intrepid (8.10). Marking this bug as fixed.

Opened a new bug for the backport request:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hardy-backports/+bug/351746