Flash Bug in Firefox
I am having a very weird issue with Firefox and my Lightbox implementation. I have a flash movie inside the iframe content thats being called by the Lightbox, but sometimes the flash will not load or render. Upon viewing the source I found that all the code is there. I’ve searched mozilla’s bug database and found nothing matching my issue.
The Rundown
- Lightbox is being called
- iFrame inside lightbox is loading content
- HTML and flash embed is there
- Flash does not load randomly
Calling the lightbox the first time in the same tab seems to work, but once I close the tab and open a new tab in Firefox and try it again then the flash does not load. I usually can recreate the issue this way. Blah.
Anyone who has had or is having this problem let me know. I would love to discuss this.
My name is Noah Everett. I live in Tulsa, OK. I started 
You have a demo url we can play with? Maybe we can try it on some different configurations and see if it’s platform-specific or something.
Yeah I am trying to get a demo up. Lately its been working though. This is a very strange issue.
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did you ever figure this out?
There are more issues with flash in firefox then this one…
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
flash player 9
Is the version I’m using
1. even though an swf is completely loaded, firefox will show “loading” in the status bar. (not always, but a lot of the time)
2. Clearing your cash with the famous shift-refresh (or even ctrl-refresh) does not always work. –> when using webdeveloper 1.1.4 you can disable your cash so you can see the new result, but once you turn it on again, the old version will show up again???
The only solution would be clearing the buffer with ctrl-shift-delete, but try explaining that to your customers!!!
the meta tag to supress caching does not prevent the flash file to be cached. But anyway, I like cache since it speeds up subsequent visits but when i update a project i cannot make sure every user gets the new version.
3. the flashfile works, but the firefox address bar becomes un-editable…
that meens that once the flash is loaded, you can only change the URL by clicking on an LINK… NOT by typing the new address in the address bar as it will not allow you to type…
All in all not that big a problem since it works, but you can hardly call it optimal.
But the caching of flash ar rather the clearing of the cache IS a huge problem.
i have the same problem, strange but clearing cache solve a little.
thanks in advance
saludos desde chile