Re: O925 freezes during Flash playback on BBC iplayer site

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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:18:58 -0000, David Batten  
<daviddotbatten299@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I can access the material easily, but once I have made the picture
> full-screen and started watching I lose control of Opera

If a Flash file takes over the whole screen and you click on it then Flash  
steals focus of the keyboard and mouse from Opera so the normal Opera  
hotkeys and page context menus stop working. But this should only become a  
problem if Opera is in full screen mode and there are no toolbars or  
panels showing (F11). When these 'freezes' occur, does the normal Flash  
context menu appear when you right-click on the screen?

Under those circumstances the trick is to use Alt+Tab twice to move to  
another program and back again, or if Opera is the only program running  
(on Windows at least) press Windows+D to go to the desktop then use  
Alt+Tab to back to it, and use F11 before clicking anything to come out of  
full screen mode.

If you've only clicked the 'full screen' button in the Flash video player  
then this should still leave Opera's toolbars displaying, and you can  
click on these to bring focus back to Opera, or click on a tool bar and  
then press the Windows context menu key to display the man page context  
menu. Alternatively, you can right click on the relavent tab to close it.

If you're talking about any other kind of freeze then I haven't seen this  
on my system though the changelog for the Opera 9.5 beta lists "Fixed  
problems displaying full-screen YouTube videos", whatever that means, so I  
don't know if that's related.