firefox flashes swf before loading

[stevedc]

I'm having an issue with firefox, surprisingly. I have a .swf file that was exported with a transparent background so I can load a swf over a bg_image in a floated div. (the site is mostly html/css). When the site is loaded in IE, Opera and Safari, things look good. But when a navigation menu item is clicked, a gray box the size of my swf flashes before it loads .swf in the main content area. here is a draft of the site. Select any menu item to have a transparent .swf file open on the right. Open it in firefox and you should see a gray box the size of the .swf flash before it loads the blue screen item. If anyone has any idea what might be causing this, that would be greatly appreciated.

~ Regards
Steve

[stevedc]

Sorry for the lack of information.

Mac OS X - Leopard
G5 dual 8.5 gigs of ram

Firefox version - 2.0.0.14

I notice this does not happen on an old windows box running IE6 and firefox.

[Medyman]

There isn't much you can do here. To my knowledge, it's not configurable behavior. It just has to do with how Fx caches and renders pages versus IE, Safari, Opera etc...

The solution would be to use the technique that you asked about in your other thread -- not reloading the page for each new "page".

I don't know what your final plans are for the flash but if it's just that animation that you're doing with the blue box, you can easily replicate that in javascript and not need to worry about Flash. An option you might want to look into.

[stevedc]

Medyman,

thanks for your great replies on both of my posts. I realized that the "flicker" in firefox is really only happening on my machine. I've looked at the site on other mac books, power books and windows machines and don't have this issue. A

As for the flash being controlled by html buttons, you're absolutely right about the javascript and actionscript working with other. However I think I'm just going to use what I have now, but put a small preloader in front of each animation.

Thanks again for all of your help!!

~ Steve

[Medyman]

I realized that the "flicker" in firefox is really only happening on my machine

Actually, I could replicate that on a my machine.