296348 - Not executing Javascript called thought Flash plugin

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Javier Gutiérrez]

User-Agent:       Opera/8.01 (Windows NT 5.1; U; es-ES)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050527 Firefox/1.0+ (djeter)

Javascript is not executed while called from a embedded Shockwave Flash.
A Flash in an HTML page with a simple getURL("javascript:alert();"); should show 
and alert window, in a same fashion as if it was called directlly from the HTML 
page. But it is'nt.

The same happens with every Javascript code called from Flash movies.

Happens also with official Firefox 1.0.3 and 1.0.4. Tested under Windows XP and 
2000.

Does not seem to be a problem with the Flash plugin, since Opera uses the same 
one, and works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load an HTML page with an embeded movie that calls some Javascript code using 
getURL.
Actual Results:  
Javascript code is not executed.

Expected Results:  
Javascript code should be run.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

According to your description, this is a problem with Firefox, not Bugzilla, so
moving the bug there.

Comment 2

[Bart Libert]

Confirmed Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050601 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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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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