[SWFObject] Flash causing IE7 to crash

[Geoff Stearns]

ah, ok this is related to the streaming content 'fix' -

there's a cleanup function that fires when the page unloads, and i  
think fp6 has issues with it, and causes a crash in the browser.

try using this prerelease version of swfobject 2.0 and the problem  
should go away.

http://blog.deconcept.com/code/swfobject2.0/




On Nov 6, 2006, at 6:09 AM, Michiel Nijdam wrote:

> Hi Geoff,
>
> I've done some more investigation on the IE7 crashes. Brion Mills
> reported that requiring a Flash player higher than 6, solved the  
> problem
> for him. I also had specified '6' as the needed player in the pages  
> that
> crashed. Changing this to '7' resulted in the alternative content  
> being
> displayed. It turned out this fresh XP install with IE7 had Flash  
> player
> 6 installed. So I upgraded to 9. This fixed the crashes on all pages,
> whether they had 6 or higher specified as the needed player.
>
> My conclusion: SWFobject, combined with Flash player 6 on Internet
> Explorer 7 on XP results in consistent crashes.
>
> Just to be complete, I answered the list of diagnostic questions you
> had:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Here's some questions that Adobe would ask if we reported this to  
> them:
>
> 1) What version of the Flash player do you have installed, and if you
> install a different version does it still crash?
>
> I had version 6 installed. Upgrading to 9 solved the crashes.
>
> 2) Does it crash consistently? (can you recreate the crash whenever
> you want, or is it random?)
>
> It crashed consistently, but never on initial load. Only after either
> reloading or following a hyperlink to a page with the same flash
> content, the browser would crash.
>
> 3) Does it only crash on a specific page, or every page with Flash
> content?
>
> The crashes appear to occur only on pages where Flash player 6 is
> specified in the SWFobject snippet like so:
> var dplan = new SWFObject("elements/deztaplan.swf", "deztaplan",  
> "169",
> "170", "6", "#FFFFFF");
>
> 4) Does it crash if the Flash content is embedded with 'normal' object
> +embed tags, or only when using Javascript like SWFObject or UFO?
> (you can use my test pages or other Flash sites to see of those crash
> the browser as well).
>
> Normal embedding did not result in crashes, the same content embedded
> with SWFobject did result in crashes. I haven't tested any other
> methods.
>
>
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