[Bug 151660] Gnash plugin stalls, takes keyboard accelerators with it.

[Joe Blaylock]

Public bug reported:

I'm using Gutsy, dist-upgraded about 14:30 EST.

Install gnash, install mozilla-plugin-gnash.  Make sure you have no
other flash installed.  Restart firefox and go to
http://www.orisinal.com.  You'll find that none of the flash games
there, for example http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bugs.htm,
works.  This is my #1 use of flash, and I suspect a lot of other
peoples', too.  But this isn't the real reason I'm filing.

If you go to that "Bugs" URL, you'll see the "loading... please wait"
message.  I didn't necessarily think that gnash should be fully flash
compatible yet (though it is a bug that they're not.)  What I'm really
complaining about is that while you're looking at that "please wait"
message, the browser hotkeys don't work as expected.  ^T doesn't open a
new tab, for example.  Nor does ^F start a search.  The gnash plugin
shouldn't co-opt the keyboard that way.  Obviously, you can click on
another tab and your hotkeys work fine again.  But it's a usability
problem that you have to do that.  You can't, after all, use the hotkeys
to switch to another tab...

** Affects: gnash (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Gnash plugin stalls, takes keyboard accelerators with it.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151660
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