macromedia or firefox or fcr6 issue ?

Kevin DeKorte kdekorte at gmail.com
Wed Oct 25 12:28:38 UTC 2006


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any web wrote:
> first of all, thanks for Zod, good job, I love it.
> 
> while checking out ATI's website for linux driver downloads, I came
> across this strange issue,
> 
> i cannot see the menu system properly because the macromedia animation
> is forcing itself ontop of every other menu
> 
> look at the screenshot to see what I'm talking about,
> 
> http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/uploads/post-1-1161757063.png
> 
> firefox is as shipped with fcr6 (1.5.0.7) and macromedia 7 installed via
> a normal 'plugins are required, please install - then next next next in
> firefox..
> 
> as you can see this problem makes the website in question unusable,
> 
> so whats wrong here, firefox, macromedia or ati's website or fedora core
> release 6 ?
> 
> any idea how to fix this ?
> 
> cheers
> anyweb

There is no fix for this. It is a bug in gecko, is that it does not
allow "windowless" plugins on X. And so with flash and other plugins you
will see z-order issues. Until gecko implements windowless plugins, this
is a side effect.

Kevin

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