Comments on: Weird Green Background in Firefox

By: Brendon Kozlowski

Brendon Kozlowski — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:15:15 +0000

Well, I uninstalled Firefox and removed my profile information before reinstalling. With a fresh install, the transparent sIFR is still completely transparent (invisible). I’m believe I’m running sIFR version 308, am about to try upgrading to the current nightly (r382)…

YAY! That did it. :) Ok, two out of two problems solved. Once again, thanks for the sleuthing, Trevor!

By: Brendon Kozlowski

Brendon Kozlowski — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:31:47 +0000

Oh man, I wish I saw this before I reformatted my PC. :( Thanks for the sleuthing, Trevor!

Now that this issue is worked out, I’m wondering, however, if anyone’s had an issue with any extensions and sIFR text completely disappearing when wmode is enabled. The flash is running, but unless I force a background color and disable wmode transparency, the entire flash object seems to be transparent (and text is not selectable within the UI).

By: Libby

Libby — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:58:39 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this. I can stop tearing my hair out now :)

By: Mark Wubben

Mark Wubben — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:48:00 +0000

Hi Trevor, thanks for figuring this out!

By: susbox

susbox — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:17:00 +0000

Nice. Thank you.
The bug has been submitted to Mozilla’s developers.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:38:38 +0000

A fix! Thanks for the updates.

I was trying to figure out if there was any way to fix it within the code, that way any users coming to the site who happened to have FF and the latest FireShot installed wouldn’t see the bug.

So while I’m glad there’s a fix, I hope the issue is resolved in later versions of FireShot, because it’s a great tool.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:25:19 +0000

@susbox-
Yes, that appeared to fix it as well.

By: susbox

susbox — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:10:13 +0000

You fixed it by removing FireShot. I’m asking you to restore the problem and try fixing it in the way I described at http://screenshot-program.com/sup/art129.htm

I suspect, they might have common issue.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:03:41 +0000

@susbox-
I’m not really sure what you are asking me to do. I was able to fix the problem.

By: susbox

susbox — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:52:32 +0000

This is not important, just try. Thank you.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:47:27 +0000

@susbox-
Hmm, I’m not sure. Our Firefox never crashed, and we were not having problems with Java. We were just seeing the strange green backgrounds on any flash movie that had wmode=transparent. In my office, we are on FF version 2.0.0.11, not FF3b2.

By: susbox

susbox — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:42:25 +0000

I suspect, this problem intersects with the bug described and fixed at http://screenshot-program.com/sup/art129.htm

Could you please confirm that?

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:23:02 +0000

@Tim-
Yeah, we found a fix. Check out the update at the top of the post. It may not be pushed out yet in the FeedBurner feed (even though I pinged them).

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:21:09 +0000

Glad you guys figured out the cause! I’ve been pulling my hair out since yesterday. Hopefully a fix will be found soon!

By: Dylan Smith – Digital advertising technologist and developer. » Blog Archive » Nasty wmode bug in Firefox 2

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:55:25 +0000

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By: Jorge Michel

Jorge Michel — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:04:14 +0000

I have the exact same problem. Upgraded from .25 to .31 and any flash with the parameter wmode=transparent is not working.

Let me know if you find a solution for this issue

Saludos

By: Adrian Turner

Adrian Turner — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:53:28 +0000

The old man has found the source. It’s FireShot .31 that is the culprit. I checked my version of FireShot and it was Fireshot .25. I checked your site, at home, and everything was fine. So I go run the update and FireShot .31 is installed and dang blasted… green backgrounds!

So what ever changed from .25 to .31 has put a monkey wrench in sIFR.

I uninstalled FireShot Version 0.31 and tried to re-install FireShot Version 0.25 the green backgrounds still showed up.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:05:13 +0000

@Andrea-
Glad it’s not just me!

I started a discussion on the FireShot plugin page, and the author of the plugin says that it’s not FireShot. But now that I have others to validate, that’s good.

I even tried disabling ALL of my plugins, but it didn’t work. It appears that it is only sIFR that has the wmode set to transparent.

Let me know if you hear any way to fix it.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:52:25 +0000

Me too!

At work today, someone said he saw a weird green background on one of our sites in development, but only in Firefox. For most of the day, he was the only one with this issue! But just a few minutes ago, gmail crashed my browser (yet again, sigh) and when I restarted it, I was informed that I had extensions with updates. Would I like to install them? Sure!

FireShot was included as one of the updates add-ons, and my coworker confirmed that he also had this installed. FireShot must be the culprit!

However, disabling, then uninstalling FireShot did not solve my problems. I still see green backgrounds on every single sIFRized site I visit. I tried disabling the other extensions updated today: Colorzilla, Greasmonkey, and Download Statusbar… nope, green backgrounds still abound.