[Vimperator] Losing focus with flash applets

[Jeffrey 'jf' Lim]

On 9/17/07, Martin Stubenschrott <stubenschrott at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:16:19AM +0200, Philipp Middendorf wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > It seems like vimperator looses the keyboard focus at the moment a flash
> > applet is clicked on. The only way to regain focus afterwards is clicking
> > somewhere on the page again. While this is not a really bad thing (since
> > you already needed the mouse activating the flash applet) I'd still like
> > to have a key combination to get the focus back. Is that possible?
>
> Unfortunatly, that's a firefox limitation, and we can't workaround it.
>
> Also flash gets focus even on mouse hover, so that's even worse :(

would an open source flash component (say gnash) be able to fix this?

-jf

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