284743 - When called for in a Flash movie Firefox does not respond

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[FarmerBob]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

When a Flash Projector plays in the Finder and at the end it has a goto http
ActionScript command, if Firefox is selected as browser of choice and not
running it will start up and open a blank page and stop. The URL is not imported
nor handled. If Firefox is running it comes to the front and nothing happens. No
new page even.

If IE is running or not and selected (or not) over FF to be browser of chioce,
no matter what the URL is resolved and all is well. This is also the case with
Opera, Camino, Safari, Netscape, Communicator . . . . except Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Play Flash movie
2. End of movie calls for the URL or Local Path
3. Nothing happens in Firefox

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
Open a blank page, as per perfs, load and execute the URL or Local Path.

Comment 1

[Arthur Wiebe]

I guess you would need to know how flash calls the browser.

Using the open command like "open http://url" works with Firefox and others.

Do you have a test case?

Comment 2

[FarmerBob]

Thank you for your reply. The "open http://url" did nothing for any browser.

FlashMX calls for the URL via: getURL("http://URL");
and allows for "variables" of how to send the command that makes the action:
getURL("http://URL, "(window style)", "GET");
adding: Don't Send (no suffix), GET, or POST which still works for all browsers
except Firefox. Firefox comes to the front but no new window nor tab opens. No
action on the URL. Any other browser that is open opens a new window and
executes the URL. If chosen as default, the other applications fire up, opens
new windows, and executes the URL. Something I have noticed before this problem,
is that Firefox when already open does not always open new windows nor tabs like
the other browsers do. This I have noticed in passing. My version of 1.0.1 will
not open a new window when using keyboard commands if the Downloads Window is
open also. DL window closed, Apple/Command-N opens a new window.

FlashMX2004 Pro, which the movie was made in, does not overtly offer the
"variables" adjustment, but creates the basic string. The "variables" is buried
or omitted as I am finding with other features that are in MX and not 2004 Pro

Comment 3

[FarmerBob]

Just got a new book on Flash. The support CD that came with the book had a index
movie that sent sent URL's and Firefox responded nicely. I will call the group
that made it and find out what string they are using to call the URL. Or
hopefully it's in the book, 870 some odd pages. It may be some time before I
find it. I will hunt it down though.

So I have definitive proof that it will work. Getting the right coding is the
trick and it's probably something really simple. Unfortunately it may not be
standard, therego, the problem.

Thanks for the reply. When I discover the coding I will post back.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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