[SWFObject] Problems with Flash 6 and swfobject 1.4.4

[Geoff Stearns]

i haven't had time to do any testing, i'll try to get to it next  
weekend.

if anyone else wants to do some testing, that would be cool.

one thing to check: try removing the cleanupSWFs functionality that i  
added in 1.4.4 and see if that fixes the crashing.



On Sep 11, 2006, at 10:02 AM, jakob neander wrote:

> Has anyone else had a chance to test this? Is it just me (even though
> I can recreate it on every computer I can get my greedy little hands
> on, 6 different computers so far)?
>
> regards
> Jakob Neander
>
> On 9/6/06, jakob neander <jakob.neander at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I love the script, but I've been having problems with the latest
>> version. I started getting complaints that our website would crash or
>> "disappear". I was unable to recreate the problem until I used the
>> uninstaller from Adobes site and installed Flash Player 6 from
>> http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14266.
>>
>> The problem seems to be the same that is described here:
>> http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/01/11/getvariable-setvariable-crash- 
>> internet-explorer-flash-6/
>> I don't use Express Install, I don't specify a minor version only "6"
>> and I don't use the getPlayerVersion() function alone (the three  
>> cases
>> described that could still cause it).
>>
>> I have actually gotten that exact error pictured there once, but most
>> of the time the browser just disappears. No error messages, the
>> current window just dies. A friend of mine had the same problem, his
>> solution was to downgrade to FlashObject 1.3c. My solution was to
>> change the version parameter from "6" to "7".
>>
>> I have set up three testpages to verify for myself:
>> http://www.cowmob.nu/~tum/flashobject/flashobject.html  
>> (flashobject 1.3c)
>> http://www.cowmob.nu/~tum/flashobject/swfobject.html (swfobject 1.4.4
>> checking for version "6")
>> http://www.cowmob.nu/~tum/flashobject/swfobject7.html (swfobject  
>> 1.4.4
>> checking for version "7")
>> (The movie is one of the sample movies from adobes homepage)
>>
>> Clicking again on each page just links back to the same page, on
>> flashobject.html and swfobject7.html I can do this over and over,
>> flashobject.html showing the flash and swfobject7.html showing the
>> fallback. swfobject.html however will show the flash, but when I  
>> click
>> the "again" link it will crash, if not the first or second time then
>> at least the third.
>>
>> Is there some way that the bug was reintroduced? Or is it something
>> else I have done wrong/missed.
>>
>> Regards
>> Jakob Neander
>>
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