269271 - Reload button does not reload flash content

Status: VERIFIED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jake Olefsky]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If a flash movie is updated or deleted, the webpage it is embedded in still
shows the old version even after a reload or super-reload.  The only way to get
the updated flash movie to display is to manually empty the cache.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a page with a flash movie
2. Delete or change the source file on the server
3. Reload the page and notice that the old movie is still there

Actual Results:  
The old movie is displayed

Expected Results:  
The updated file will be displayed, just like updated images or html are
displayed on a reload.

Comment 1

[meravd]

I've seen the same problem with textarea.

Comment 2

[Hiro]

duplicate 89419 ?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 5

[Jake Olefsky]

verifying because I cant reproduce it anymore.