Flash objects not working in FF

[steal_away]

Hello, this is my first post and I'm a relative novice to web development, being self-taught, so have a lot to learn.

I run a fan-site for Richard Ashcroft, and I have 3 swf objects on my homepage which worked perfectly fine until a couple of weeks ago, when they stopped showing correctly in FF and Safari, although they have no problem in IE.

The code validates with W3C standards (except the code for the facebook button which I've given up trying to validate, but which works fine).

If anyone can help with this problem I would be very grateful!

Here is the code for one of my objects:

<object data="myjukebox2.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="25" height="25">
<param name="movie" value="myjukebox2.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="scale" value="noscale" />
<param name="salign" value="lt" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#3A0112" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
</object>

My website is http://richardashcroftonline.com

Thanks in advance.

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

That should work just fine although I recommend using http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

[steal_away]

Thanks very much for your reply!
I can only think a Firefox update must have caused the problem as initially everything worked fine.

The same thing happened on a page of my other fansite:
http://theverveonline.com/bittersweetstory.html
There should be 4 swf objects which no longer show up in FF, although they still work in IE and Chrome.

Thanks for the link - I'll give it a try...

[kizi]

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[steal_away]

Originally Posted by _Aerospace_Eng_

That should work just fine although I recommend using http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

I was advised in that googlegroup that I didn't have correct markup to display the flash objects correctly ... and was directed to the tutorials...

Thankfully I found out eventually that the problem was caused when I disabled hotlinking to images on the server - once I enabled this again everything was fine and no change of code was required!

[janiz77]

I have built a website that uses javascript to test whether a recent enough version of flash is installed in the browser and if it is writes the HTML to embed the flash banner. It is largely along the lines of what Macromedia recommends and uses both object and embed tags. It works fine in all IE browsers I have looked at and in most Firefox browsers, however it is not working on one Firefox browser I have looked at (version 1.5.0.4).

some idea of the basis?

[shazib222]

I was having a similar issue with SWF files in CS3.

What i did was to insert the SWF files a different way.

The method that worked for me was "Insert/Media/Flash".

Then select the SWF file.

The "Insert/Media/Flash Video" worked on all the browsers I tried but only for FLV extensions.

The "Insert/Media/Shockwave" method worked for me in Opera and Firefox, but not in IE, Crome or Safari browsers.

...

I hope it works for you.

[aishan111]

Originally Posted by shazib222

I was having a similar issue with SWF files in CS3.

What i did was to insert the SWF files a different way.

The method that worked for me was "Insert/Media/Flash".

Then select the SWF file.

The "Insert/Media/Flash Video" worked on all the browsers I tried but only for FLV extensions.

The "Insert/Media/Shockwave" method worked for me in Opera and Firefox, but not in IE, Crome or Safari browsers.

...

I hope it works for you.

Thanks it worked for me..

[chukcha]

Just opened with my FF works like a charm

[chukcha]

Originally Posted by steal_away

Thanks very much for your reply!
I can only think a Firefox update must have caused the problem as initially everything worked fine.

The same thing happened on a page of my other fansite:
http://theverveonline.com/bittersweetstory.html
There should be 4 swf objects which no longer show up in FF, although they still work in IE and Chrome.

Thanks for the link - I'll give it a try...

You can also try firefox plugin called "Flash Aid" it will fix any related flash problems. Will check different versions and if there is any conflicts will report it too.