I dealt with this issue on my blog pretty extensively.. http://thesaj.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/the-nightmare-that-is-_blank-part-ii-help/
Here is an example of what I implemented for the browsers I was testing for (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera on PC/Mac) http://www.easternstorm.net/sassie/example2/example2-swfobject2.html Note - in my personal usage, I broke up the example into two classes. One for browser detection and one for _blank issues. Note, there are a few caveats: > allowScriptAccess needs to be set to "always" > wmode needs to be set to either "transparent" or "opaque" - Jason
