Heads Up: Firefox 3 Breaks Some Flash Applications

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Update: They’re going to rollback the change that caused the problem with Flash. Thanks to mjg for the heads up.

I wanted to give Flash developers a quick heads up because when Firefox 3 gets rolled out you may be getting emails from your users about existing Flash content not working. The problem is a bug in the recent builds of Firefox 3 which doesn’t handle some of the keyboards events correctly.

Unfortunately it doesn’t sound like this bug is going to be fixed before the final Firefox 3 release (we have to wait for a point release) but you can vote for it on the bug page. Please don’t comment as that adds to the noise, but voting is encouraged! (You have to register, but it’s pretty painless).

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  • http://www.tekool.net Tek

    Another issue you want to vote for is the “key input problem on international keyboards when wmode is opaque or windowless” : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347185

    Here in Europe or with any language that do not use US keyboard we simply cannot use wmode opaque or windowless when the animation need the user type something in a flash text field.

    The problem exists since first versions of Netscape and follows on Firefox 1.5 and now Firefox 3 …

  • mjg

    Looks like they have now decided to back out the changes which introduced this issue into Firefox3.

    See comment #34 here:

  • mjg
  • schrep

    This will be fixed in Release Candidate 2 which should be out next week.

  • Anonymous

    I checked the Voting page and there were no votes coming from adobe… mmm

  • ryanstewart

    I voted with my personal address. Other Adobe folks may have done the same.