Flash: Firefox & Shared Libraries..

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  • jkosoy

    Hey everyone,

    I've got a Flash site I'm building that involves some pretty heavy use of a shared library through multiple SWFs. When I load the page in Internet Explorer, the site appears to work just fine- no problems at all. However, when I load the site in Firefox the SWF displays the shared objects on the bottommost layer (obviously my publish settings are set to "Bottom Up") on my timeline and then nothing else. Furthermore, no actionscript runs. It's as if Flash gets to frame 2 of the SWF and then just completely quits...like there was a compile error.

    I have some shared library movieclips nested inside of static movieclips throughout the project; I attempted to set the linkage to export on the first frame. This appeared to irregularly load an additional object or two, with the site still breaking. I then attempted to turn off any layer that didn't have a shared library movieclip directly embedded on the stage directly. I tried again; no problems. Unfortunately there's no real good way to build this so that every movieclip is on the root level.

    Everything has been published as Flash 7/AS 2 and I've checked on several other machines; it's not just a freak occurrence. I can't seem to find any documentation on the Flash plug-in doing anything differently about shared objects in different browsers.

    Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas?