533289 - Widgets (e.g. flash video) often steal the ability to scroll the page, and ctrl-tab.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Hugo Elias]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Pressing play on a video basically kills the keyboard shortcuts and mousewheel.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a video on YouTube
2. When the page has loaded, press play (or pause).
3. Try to scroll with the scroll wheel.
4. Try to switch to a different tab using ctrl-tab

Actual Results:  
Page does not scroll.
Tab does not switch.


Expected Results:  
Page should scroll.
Tab should switch.


Why is this annoying?
This normally wouldn't be annoying, but there are now so many widgets in web pages which can steal, not only the ability to scroll, but also the ability to ctrl-tab, etc.

It's especially annoying on a laptop with a touchpad, trying to page down, then moving your hand over to the touchpad, moving the cursor to a blank space, clicking, and moving back to the page down key.

Why should the behaviour be different?
Pressing play on a video basically kills the keyboard shortcuts and mousewheel. Surely, 99% of the time the user wants to scroll, etc.?

Comment 2

[arni2033]

>>>   My Info:   Win7_64, Nightly 52, 32bit, ID 20161001030430 (2016-10-01)
Bug 78414 is marked as "FIXED", but this is still reproducible.

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

We're in the process of removing support for plugins (bug 1677160), so I think this bug is irrelevant now.