Comments on: Bug in Flash Player FileReference browse affecting Macs

By: Chris McDonald

Chris McDonald — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:49:33 +0000

That’s good to hear. I’ve been keeping up with the Firefox upgrades so luckily didn’t encounter it.

By: Otto

Otto — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:34:32 +0000

That was with firefox 3.6. With firefox 7 and fp11 it’s working.

By: Otto

Otto — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:37:34 +0000

11.0.1.152 with firefox. The problem seems back again.

By: Mike B

Mike B — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:07:59 +0000

So I’m not crazy after all. After experiencing this odd behavior I went straight to Google.
So glad I found this post.

By: Winton DeShong

Winton DeShong — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:31:17 +0000

All I can say is THANK YOU! After 8 hours of debugging our internal flex framework and different SDKs for flex I came across this post. Phew. Tested it on the client’s environment and it works.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:14:35 +0000

If anyone else is still running into this, instead of calling an alert(), try to open a new window with window.open() and then change the focus to that window with .focus() and then call .close() on it. Seems to be working for me. I even added some JS to detect the browser so it only does this workaround for firefox since it seems to be the only one causing issues.

By: Preston

Preston — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:02:36 +0000

I also see this bug
it totally kills slider component and startdrag stopdrag too
my specs are fash player 10,0,42,3 debug version
osx 10.6.3
firefox 3.6.3

By: Chris McDonald

Chris McDonald — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:45:34 +0000

Adobe have release flash player 10.1 beta 3, check here for the bugs that have been fixed: http://onflash.org/ted/2010/02/bugs-fixed-in-fp101b3.php

By: Chris McDonald

Chris McDonald — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:03:49 +0000

Thanks for all the nice comments, good to to be of some help.
By the way, Adobe have released an update on the new beta flash player which fixes the duplicated keys issue, so you may want to try that one out. It is the beta release of flash player 10.1 so I recommend everyone try it out and reporting any bugs in it to Adobe so there is less chance we experience issues such as this one.

By: Otto

Otto — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:48:07 +0000

Thanks for all the information regarding this issue. And special thanks to Andy for the workaround.