Paul. Interesting!
I have never seen Firefox crash consistently on a Flash interaction before (obviously this is not a good thing, but my inner geek is curious). I was able to reproduce the issue as you described. I was also able ttrack down what is causing the issue (at least in broad terms), and why the Adobe page works (with it's current settings), an why the SWFObject one does not. It is not actually SWFObject, and I can break your Adobe embed page with one settng change as well. It is the wmode=transparent setting on the SWFObject page cause the crash. The Adobe page has wmode=window (which is the default wmode unless you set it to something else). I removed wmode=transparent on the SWFObject page, and all worked as it should. Here is a simple test page which breaks<http://www.misterhee.com/tests/lg.uk.test.html>and which works <http://www.misterhee.com/tests/lg.uk.test.working.html> (only the 1 setting changed) So try removing the wmode param and give it a shot. Cheers, Aran The fact that your page crashes is no less interesting, it just means that it is a Flash player + Firefox + Wmode bug (add it to the long list of others in the wild already). Below is the crash infor Vista caught for me (it doesn't look very useful): * Product * Firefox * Problem * Stopped working * Date * 1/06/2009 8:55 PM * Status * Solution Available * Problem signature * Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: firefox.exe Application Version: 1.9.0.3399 Application Timestamp: 49f1091d Fault Module Name: NPSWF32.dll Fault Module Version: 10.0.2.54 Fault Module Timestamp: 48bed652 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 0009683e OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1 Locale ID: 3081 Additional Information 1: b769 Additional Information 2: f24459bb50c22c90f5cbda48290d664a Additional Information 3: 675a Additional Information 4: 31030dc2399650bcb334083e97ba1e01 * Extra information about the problem * Bucket ID: 1299092346 On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:13 PM, pauls999 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > We have developed a flash based product selection guide for LG but we > have found that when it is launched using SWFObject in firefox it > crashes the browser completely when you select an option from the > carousel. This only happens if the user has version 10 of flash > installed (we tested it with 10,0,22,87) when used with Flash V9 it > works OK. > > We know that it is not a Flash coding issue because when we use the > standard adobe javascript launch code it works OK in all browsers and > all flash versions, so it seems to be the SWFObject is causing the > crash. > > The link with the SWFobject on is www.lge.co.uk/tvguide/ where > probelm is occuring and the link to the Adobe version where it works > OK is here http://www.isitetv.com/lgplatform/LGplatform04.html. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
