Here at unit9 we’ve noticed that Firefox 3 for Mac OS X is creating visual issues on many of our flash sites. In particular, on sites where we use SWFAddress to deeplink into our flash site, when the URL in the address bar changes the Flash site then flickers off then back on.
I was unable to find this issue listed in the current release notes. So far the only information I’ve found has been posted by Adobe employee Mike Chambers who has posted an article on his blog about the issue.
While this may just be Release Candidate 3 (a beta) of Firefox 3, it was released on June 11th, and the finial release of the full product is scheduled for June 17th. One can only hope that Mozilla and Adobe can work to fix this issue.
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I’ve also run into this issue. So far I’ve only seen it when SWFAddress is used with Papervision3D. I can’t tell if that’s a library conflict, a rendering issue, or a resource issue, or all of the above.
Could you tell me if you’re using any other libraries on the site where you see this?
Also are the Flash pieces resource heavy?
Are they written in AS2 or 3?
Is there any JavaScript interaction?
Thanks,
Sean
I’ve also run in similar issues, here I found more info:
http://www.blog.lessrain.com/possible-bug-in-firefox-301-mac/
Here is a workaround until the problem gets fixed in Firefox:
http://www.blog.lessrain.com/possible-bug-in-firefox-301-mac/#comment-137596
tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!