Firefox popup from Flash

I’ve found Firefox has one of the best popup killers around, perhaps a little too good in fact. Since the 1.5 release, getURL statements that launch a page in a new window from Flash are also blocked.

This was bound to happen when evil spammers turn to Flash as a refuge for their popup launching activities, the problem with that however is that settings manager for some of the advanced Flash Player settings is also triggered using getURL.

http://www.macromedia.com/…/settings_manager02.html

Unsuspecting users could encounter this problem when they get presented with a Privacy popup question in the Flash Player and click the advanced button.

Manish Jethani also has a more detailed post about this issue from a Flex perspective


 

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  3. MXML going mainstream
  4. Flash Player 9 beta for Linux
  5. The Flash Platform saga… one week later


 
Posted on January 16, 2006 by . This entry was posted in Flash, Flex. Bookmark the permalink.

2 Comments

  • argonauta
    January 16, 2006 - 5:12 pm | Permalink

    hi, i found this, probably happens all the time, or maybe I just had luck. When i put the getURL code for an onRelease event, the popup blocker stoped it from opening. However, when I put the getURL code in a onPress event, the popup window would open with no problems at all.

  • prayone
    January 16, 2006 - 7:17 pm | Permalink

    I think it’s the opposite. It works with onRelease but the popup is blocked if you use onPress event.

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