Tuesday, May 19, 2009

I found a bug

I'm not sure if it's a Firefox bug or a Flash bug, but it's definitely related to the two.

Reproducability is always on my computer, give it a shot and see if it happens on yours too. It's really simple.
  1. Make a new tab. The bug seems to happen per-tab.
  2. Go to any site with streaming videos (i.e. YouTube).
  3. Pick a random video.
  4. Press Alt + Home (the keyboard shortcut for your home page). You should see your home page load. (just for confirmation that the keyboard shortcut does in fact work)
  5. Now hit Back to go back to the video.
  6. Fullscreen the video, then exit fullscreen. You don't even need the video to be playing.
  7. Click the page outside of the video player so Firefox gets input focus back from Flash.
  8. Press Alt + Home again.
Nothing happens? Yeah, that's the bug.

I guess I should report it through the proper channels (to both Firefox's bug tracker and Flash's, if they even have one).

Edit: submitted it to Bugzilla, we'll see if they just ignore it or what.

Double edit: Apparently people on Bugzilla don't actually read a report fully before marking it invalid. Is this guy blind or what?

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