282355 - Browser doesn't work correctly with interactive CD-ROMs

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[michael dean]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0


thanks! 

i just submitted my first firefox bug! 

Hi. I'm a tech writer ( http://www.kittyfeet.com/bookingIt.htm ) and ...I
noticed an issue with the CD ROMs that come with all my books. 

As I started using Firefox, the CDs stopped working correctly. I can still
browse them through Windows, and the Flash interface still loads, but whenever I
try to click on the links on the Flash-based CD-ROM Interface, they don't open
the folders on the CD. Instead they go online and do web searches for the terms.
For instance, when you click the link for the "goodies" folder, it does a web
search on the term "goodies" through Firefox. 

In order to make the CDs work correctly, I had to make Internet Explorer my
default browser.

I think the issue is something with how FireFox blocks pop ups, because it does
ship with Flash native, and Flash pages work fine in it. Or maybe the fact that
Windows IS Internet Explorer, and Firefox is not. 

Is there a way, in future versions, to fix this? 

thanks. 

michael w. dean


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, are you using getURL() in Flash ? If you do, it's a dupe of bug 249285.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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