Flash cancels fullscreen mode when losing focus to another display

Bug #1047379 reported by Chris Jordan
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Using xubuntu 12.04. Related packages: flashplugin-installer, xfce (v4.10), google-chrome/firefox.

I work with multiple displays and frequently have flash videos full-screen on my secondary monitor. However, when the full-screen flash video loses focus to another window it cancels full-screen mode.

I understand this may be an issue that walks the line of working as intended making this possibly a feature request rather than a bug report. However, this functionality is available on other operating systems (Windows/OSX) and think it's the intuitive way for a flash player to function.

Note: fullscreen flash is currently bugged in chrome. The solution to which is to install flashplugin-installer and disable chromes default "pepper flash" plugin in chome://plugins (click details on the top right to see all versions of flash on system).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.238ubuntu0.12.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 7 14:42:42 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Chris Jordan (chrisjordan82) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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