429710 - Navigating away from page in Flash, then pressing "Back" results in no Flash content.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 426852

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sarah Cartwright]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5

Navigating away from a page in Flash by using a link on the page/inside the Flash object and then pressing "Back" fails to reload the Flash object.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/live_stats/html/map.stm

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Navigate to a page with Flash that contains a link inside the Flash object.

2.Navigate from the page by clicking the Flash objects link.

3.Press the "Back" navigation button, and the previous page will reload without the Flash content.
Actual Results:  
The Flash object does not load with the rest of the page.

Expected Results:  
The Flash object should load with the rest of the page.

I haven't looked to see how prevalent the problem is on the Internet.