Hi, this problem is unfortunately jeopardising the inclusion of some flash
applications in our portal site (www.xtramsn.co.nz).

Ok first up, this is not a flash player installation issue or a
System.security issue (I think).

Platform
Windows XP

Firefox version
1.0.4 or if you prefer: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Flash plugin version
7,0,19,0

Error Reported (in a popup dialog box)
Illegal Operation in Plugin
Shockwave Flash
The plugin performed and illegal operation. You are strongly advised to
restart Navigator.

The swf needs to source data from an xml file. I have isolated the problem to
the XML.load() method. ie. when I remove the method the error does not happen,
if I make a button that triggers the method the error occurs when I click the
button.

The error doesn't happen every time... it is a reasonably erratic event, I
need to refresh the page a few times for it to repeat.

There is this too:
The HTML which displays the SWF is at
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xtramsn/odc_testing/0,,11672,00.html
The SWF file is located using this path:
/homepage2/staticImages/flash/map_v6.swf
The XML file is loaded using this path:
/xtramsn/odc_testing/0,,11672-3012790,00.html

Thus two things:
The xml file is suffixed with ".html" as far as my repeated testing can tell
this is not an issue
The xml and html files are in the same folder but the swf file is in another.

I have searched around but cannot find anything refferring to this issue.
Please help! Have I missed something obvious? Is this a known bug?
Hello Macromedia employees, I am a great flash advocate, I have made many
flash applications and now am in a position to enrich a large (well for my
country anyway) monopolistic portal with engaging interactive apps. Do you have
any suggestions? Lets chat!

Thanks for reading :)
Jez

I am experiencing the same problems here, I think they started after I upgraded
to firefox 1.0.4, now I spend a few minutes searching the web for solution to
fix this, but with no luck ... Let's hope they fix it fast, I really don't want
to change the browser :\

Aha! Excellent. Can you please offer a demonstration of your problem?

One thing I haven't tested is using an earlier version of firefox... this I will do presently.

Sure I can offer a demonstration,
i.e. this site: http://www.maxmedia.sk

Just to be sure we are talking about the same problem, this is the error I get:
http://www.w4tch0.net/screenshots/firefox.bmp

I tried reinstalling the flash player and shockwave player, did not help, so I
reinstalled firefox (deleting all the settings and plugins from user folder ...
) and than reinstalled players, but still no luck. I did not try to change the
versions yet ...

Cheers

w4tch0