Firefox takes focus on flash double-click

[dansumption]

I've recently noticed that when Flash goes into full-screen mode, triggered by a double-click, Firefox (3.0.1) takes the focus - if the user clicks anywhere on the screen outside the area of the original (non-fullscreen) Flash player area, Flash returns to non full-screen mode. Also, the cursor changes to reflect whatever is on the browser page beneath the fullscreen Flash app - i.e. it changes to a hand in areas where there is a link on the HTML page, or to a bar in areas where there is a textbox.

When using another method to go to fullscreen, e.g. by single-clicking on a button, everything works fine.

Has anyone else noticed this, and does anyone know of a work-around?

[dansumption]

Update: the problem isn't quite as straightforward as I'd thought. I built a quick & dirty fullscreen test, so that I could show folks here exactly what the issue is, but... it works in Firefox (i.e. goes to fullscreen and captures focus for the entire screen, without dropping back into normal mode on click).

Problem definitely seems to be a browser issue, as it works fine in IE (6), but like I say it's not just a simple matter of all double-click initiated fullscreen.

The double-click is on a streaming flv, perhaps this could affect things. Anyone else got any suggestions?

[k.a.r.l.2000]

This bug was driving me crazy today. I got around it by triggering fullscreen with onPress instead of onRelease.

This nice person provides a demo of both options...
http://www.blog.lessrain.com/wp-content/upload/fs/

[k.a.r.l.2000]

ugh. got onRelease and onPress mixed up.

You can avoid the bug in firefox by triggering fullscreen with an onRelease event.

OnPress causes the bug.