Created attachment 827318 PoC patch for both winless and windowed plugins. (Windows)
This proposal is a sensible workaround (as a "complete" solution would require the collaboration of every single plugin developer, which doesn't seem feasible) for Windows. Is my understanding that OSX is not affected, and a solution already exists for GNU/Linux, please correct me if I'm wrong. I've implemented two different strategies, one for plugins running in its own window, and the other for the winless ones. The first one installs a keyboard hook, which looks for well known keystrokes, and passes the focus to the main window when one is found. The second passes all key events to both the plugin and the DOM, except for the ones which generates movement events (arrow keys, space, pageup/pagedown...). This patch is intended as a Proof-of-Concept, it needs betters comments, an approved list of keystrokes to watch, and (probably) the ability to be enabled/disabled via "about:config". But I wanted to obtain early feedback from the devs prior to investing more work on it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to flashplugin-nonfree in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263435 Title: Firefox cannot close tab (using Ctrl-w) when flash content is selected on page Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox-3.0” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree Firefox cannot close tab (using Ctrl-w) or switch to next tab (using Ctrl-Tab) when flash content is selected on page. Steps to reproduce: 1) Open a new Tab 2) Go to a website with flash content (in this case youtube.com) 3) Selected the flash content by clicking on it (in this case click on play) 4) While the content plays, press a keyboard shortcut (in this case Ctrl-w to close the tab) Result: The shortcut is not registered by firefox, the tab remains open Expectation: The shortcut should be registered by firefox, the tab should close A good way of knowing that "selecting the flash content" is at the root of the problem: if you select a part of the page that is not flash content (in this case empty white space at the right or the left of the video) followed by Ctrl-W, the tab closes. Version Information: Ubuntu Hardy (2.6.24-19-generic) firefox 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3 flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.124.0ubuntu2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/263435/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
