Safari 5.1 - 10.6.8 - Flash input problem

I have the same problem. Had to switch to firefox to debug my flex application.

Hope they will fix it soon.

I have the same problem using safari 5.1 windows

Same problem here with 5.1. Had to switch to Firefox to get IGN to work properly....

I am having the same problem. The older version of Safari on my MacBook Air is working fine.

I've got the same problem!!

-steve

I've been debugging an old Flash file all day. My input text was broken so I was off into the weeds trying to fix embedded fonts, changing player versions etc. I tested several dozen old tricks in Safari. A google search lead me here to find this bug. I thought I was seriously losing my mind. 😕

I, too, am encountering this after an upgrade to Safari. Specifically running Safari 5.1 (6534.50) on 10.6.8 (10K549). This after uninstalling and re-installing the latest debug build of Flash (as I develop Flex applications) I am now running version 10,3,181,34. Safari extensions are disabled, and my simple test-case Flex application (a single text box, text area, button and check-box) runs fine in Opera, Chrome, and Camino. I'm also filing a RDAR bug for this.

Updated to add: Issue reported as rdar://9879255

Same problem, Flash Debug Player & Safari 5.1.

Really annoying because Safari WAS by far the best browser to test Flash on for Mac OS X.

It’s a problem with keypress events when an embedded SWF has wmode=transparent (possibly opaque too). It was a bug with Safari before. Apparently it’s back. Now FIX IT!!

I've been having the same problem with the Flash Player debugger version while working on Flex applications. However, if you want to stay in Safari while debugging a Flex/Flash app, just choose FireFox 4.01 (Mac) from the User Agent menu selection in the Safari Developer menu. It works just fine from there.

I also don't think this was intentional at all. I think it was just a bit careless (Apple pushing out Safari 5.1 before it being thoroughly tested - the flash problem is only one of several issues I've noted with the new browser. Very dissapointing.).

A word of caution with the above solution: Although you will be able to type inside text edit fields in the Flash Debug Player, there is still quite alot of erratic cursor behavior (mostly, it dissapears forcing you to move your mouse away from the player instance to get a pointer back).

it would be better if the Apple devs would address the problem before i retire.

I'm seeing this same problem. I tried the Safari workaround suggested by SwampSpawn and it did allow me to input text and basically run and test my Flex app (I also saw the cursor dispappearing problem).

However, none of the breakpoints in my code were being triggered. So the app would run and function fairly normally but I couldn't really "debug" with the debugger. 😟

Has anyone else who tried changing the User Agent in Safari seen this?

Steve

Well....I finally bit the bullet and just downgraded Safari 5.1 to version 5.05. Too many flakey issues with 5.1, and not just with Flash Player debug. 5.05 actually seems to run noticeably faster, too, and I'm back to a point where things work as expected now with Flash and Flex debugging.

This is the second Apple software downgrade I've performed this week. After using Lion for a couple of weeks, I decided the drawbacks associated with such a new release far outweighed any benefit of the new OS. So I'm back on 10.6 and loving it (and my ColdFusion install loves it as well). I'm starting to buy in to the whole Lion = Vista chatter on the 'net. Still, Lion had some cool features so I'm hoping Apple's first update will fix a lot of the strange behavior and application incompatibilities (many of which will hopefully be addressed soon by the respective publishers).

MLM