When Flash Player 9 goes into full screen mode, it pops up a little security message that tells the user how to exit full screen mode. It appears as white text on a semi-transparent black background so it is generally always visible (which is good). Still, I wondered if it could be obscured.
The message is always on top, so it is impossible to draw over it. But what if we tried distracting the user from the actual security message?
Here’s a silly test:
This movie requires Flash Player 9
Of course, you can press Esc (or alt+tab to another window) to escape.
UPDATE: I have made the source code available, warts and all, under a ZLib licence. Share and enjoy :)
Haha thanks for the laughs!
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\r\nThis would be the perfect prank if someone could hide the \"esc to exit full screen\"…
And here I was thinking switching to Ubuntu would rid me of the BSOD forever :)
LOL, i almost got panic…
LOL, that is insane. I sent my wife a link to her laptop and she almost lsot it! LMAO, too funny.
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That was cool. What you should do is detect the native OS the user has and customize the BSoD. Then you could freak out us OSX users a bit more. :)
I think it’s work better if the jumbled backparts were also english – the way we view things, we look for recognisable patterns in things like that, making “press ESC to exit” stand out as the only pattern on screen that we can make sense of – if people were so busy reading all the other messages, odds that they note the exit prompt are smaller.
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Nice, but not perfect. The fade-out gives away the real message.
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That’s brilliant. Only thing better would be if you could hide the mouse too. :D
Huh, that BSOD scared me off . Nice job man. :)
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Nice :D I bet some ppl WILL hit CTRL-ALT-DEL when they see this.
Oh! I watched it a couple of times and I didn’t notice the Full Screen message!
This is great!! pretty funny!
Nice job. Took me 20 times before I saw the notice about hitting ESC.
Oh, that is just evil. Brilliant… but nicely evil. You deserve to be hired by some giant marketing machine, to wreak your havoc on a broader, unsuspecting public. Bravo!
i nearly screamed at the BSOD – shoulda read the comments.
hah. good one. couldn’t be more obvious i’m not hard at work when i should be
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Nice post, I really don’t like the full screen movies and animations on the site especially if I don’t request them by my self.
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Oh you are bad… and brilliant!
Very nice example. Well done!
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Haha, I’m so tempted to send that to my brother that knows nothing about computers and is having all sorts of problems.
Oddly, with Flash 9.0 r115 on Linux with Firefox 3, I don’t get any sort of hovering or popup message telling me how to exit full-screen.
The BSOD is nice, though.
One thing you could also do is to fade out all of the fake text boxes at the same time that Flash’s message fades away, to obscure it then as well.
“Press any key to restart the computer” would be the best error message, since that’ll scare ’em out of hitting ESC.
Simply, gloriously, amazing!
wow! BSOD on my mac!
@Brady: Wrong. If the messages were readable, you would focus on that section of the screen.
soo i have a question how do you share it well with the sorce code and everything i was wondering how to make it a clickable link and whatnot
Just fiddling with the source,
the message boxes look much more like the real one without any effects, and if you use bitmap fonts rather than anti-aliased ones.
Just another thought, can you simulate key presses/mouse clicks with javascript?
Oh yeah, one thing for people who want to hide the mouse.
Just add Mouse.hide(); to the top of the blueScreen function.
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What a moron.
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*chuckle* .. loved it! Must leave this on my screen when i go out for lunch ;)
I agree with #1.. best use of full screen EVAR!!
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employs a similar, albeit less menacing, tactic.
Heh, certainly distracting and very amusing as well. Not sure it’s quite enough to exploit people using flash to replace their desktop just yet though. If there were a way to disrupt video output long enough for the video to load as full screen and have the warning go away it would have some serious attack potential though.
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Took me three tries to spot it. Even then, it was only because the box faded away. If you really want to be nasty, make all those boxes fade away at the same time. >:-D
I also smiled as the BSOD came up on my Mac’s screen. To everyone saying it could be made platform-specific: Mac OS X’s “kernel panic” screen is a message about restarting overlaid on a dimmed and darkened view of the existing screen — that is, windows and apps that were in use up until the moment of death are still visible under the error message. This strikes me as being hard to fake, unless you managed to get Flash 9 to do a screen grab. (Not just of the browser window, but of the entire contents of the monitor.)