Idea #5048: Why can't I scrool on flashes in firefox?

Written by bogdan_5844 the 18 Mar 08 at 21:39. Category: Accessibility.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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I know this may be a firefox related question,but oh well...

In winblows,when I scrooled the wheel with my mouse being on a flash(like the flash videos on youtube) it will continue scrooling.In ubuntu if I scrool with the cursor on the flash,it does nothing.

Try it for yourself.You shall see.

I think this is totally stupid and should be solved

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elisee wrote on the 18 Mar 08 at 22:09

I think it got fixed in Firefox 3

Ralf.Nieuwenhuijsen wrote on the 18 Mar 08 at 22:25

I heard about this as well. This being fixed. Haven't seen it yet, though. Can any one confirm?

Rioting_Pacifist wrote on the 18 Mar 08 at 22:31

i can confirm that its fixed in FF3b5pre, other than that its a Firefox bug so theres nothing ubuntu could do.

forteller wrote on the 19 Mar 08 at 00:33

I'm running yesterdays nightly of Firefox 3 (also called b5pre), and here it's still a problem with my laptops touchpad. I don't know if it's still a problem with the scrollwheel on a normal mouse, I can't test that now.

neon wrote on the 19 Mar 08 at 02:47

Works fine for me, Firefox 3 beta 4.

and by the way, it's scroll, not scrool. :)

Lee wrote on the 19 Mar 08 at 03:01

Flash is a seperate application, which does its own input processing. It SHOULD react differently to scrolling over it, just as a toolbar button should act differently from text in a wordprocessor when you click. There's nothing stupid about it; just your misunderstanding of how a GUI works.

shlomil wrote on the 19 Mar 08 at 08:52

knowing a thing or two about Mozilla plugins, I guess it's caused by the way Mozilla provides a window handle for plugins. Mozilla uses Xt handle which has it's own focus behavior (steals focus on mouse over) which is not consistent with GTK.

There is a better way to do this - use X-Embed instead.
You could probably port the plugin but there's one problem - You don't have the source :)
This is a good point for the free flash replacements attempts.

bogdan_5844 wrote on the 22 Mar 08 at 17:49

Lee: How come the scrolling works in Windows but not in my favourite,better OS,Ubuntu?I can't understand...

Neon: Thanks for the correcting,I have some english probs :D

neon wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 01:55

Hey, no problem. :D

Bender2k14 wrote on the 28 Jul 08 at 05:46

Well, FF3 is released now and I do not have this problem.

MarcioVinicius wrote on the 24 Oct 08 at 20:21

Oh!!!
I have this problem...
And i think it is a bug!

Btw, what in Firefox does it work better in Linux than in "winblows"? Let's make a new browser!

MarcioVinicius wrote on the 24 Oct 08 at 20:21

Oh!!!
I have this problem...
And i think it is a bug!

Btw, what in Firefox does it work better in Linux than in "winblows"? Let's make a new browser (only for Linux)!

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