191506 - flash version 6.o movie will not load current flash player installed other flash content will load

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Jay Hadley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: mozila 1.3a

I tryed two relaeaseds 1.0.2 and 1.3a to I downloaded and installed the flash 
player 6 from macromedia com downloads

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.laod URL www.silvereagledesign.net
2.
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Actual Results:  
win-cabin.swf does not load

Expected Results:  
loaded the movie like internet explorer does

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Which version of the flash player do you have installed in MSIE?
Many sites still don't recognize flash version 6, but look for only v5 instead,
and redirect to download page if it isn't "installed".
If you have flash5 in IE, but 6 in Mozilla, that would explain the difference.

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

->plug-ins

Comment 3

[Jay Hadley]

I moved the swf file into the directory of the html file and it worked

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

well i too have flash6 installed (linux) and i am redirected to the page that
prompts me to install flash.

Comment 5

[bmartin]

Marking Verified Fixed testing with Flash 6r65 and latest Branch and Trunk