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  1. Bug #243520
  2. Comment #37

Comment 37 for bug 243520

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In , Robertburke (robertburke) wrote :

Please see Bug 445599 (apparently a dup of this bug) for another test case around *this* bug. I also have a working demo of the bug here: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~reburke/work/Firefox3Bug/ff3buginfo.html

Note that in bug 445520 (related to this bug), swfobject 1.5 is mentioned. I found that upgrading swfobject to 2.1 fixes the problem for me described in *this* bug report. The basic difference is that swfobject 2.1 embeds flash with an embed tag, whereas swfobject 2.1 embeds flash with an object tag (with nested param tags). In FF 3.0.1, if you embed flash with an embed tag, and you have certain add-ons such as Greasemonkey, the flash runtime initializes twice due to plugin being initialized twice (see my NSPR logging in Bug 445599).

Anyhow, I think the clue here may be the way in which FF 3.0.1 handles the embed tag, as opposed to how FF 2 handled it.