557737 - Flash LocalConnection use fails under most circumstances

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Pete Hutchison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100315 Firefox/3.5.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100315 Firefox/3.6

Use of flash's LocalConnection appears to have broken in the upgrade from 3.5.9 to 3.6

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://www.flashvalley.com/fv_tutorials/localConnection/ 
2.use the flash object shown in the tutorial to send a message to the other flash object
3. message from one object should appear the the other
Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Message sent from 1st flash object displays in the seconds

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

You can also try to reproduce in Firefox 4 Beta 8 or later, there are many improvements in the new version, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 2

[Pete Hutchison]

Works in subsequent releases so no longer applicable.