hi guys,
complete first timer on here so be gentle,

i have a very annoying problem with flash player and my firefox web browser.

what happens is,
normal browsing is all ok with no problems, but as soon as a flash ad or
anything with flash appears , it basically brings that web page to a stand
still.

meaning, you know when you use your scroll wheel under normal circumstances,
to scroll down a page, well when the problem happens, the page just virtually
freezes up, and scrolling just becomes impossible.

i figured this out to be a flash player problem, when i was on IGN'S web site,
and they have small ads appearing at regular intervals, and i noticed that as
soon as ads appeared, the scrolling problem happened.

so can anybody give me any ideas as to why or how to stop this happening.

i have firefox 2.0.0.3 and flash player 9,0,28,0

thanks for any help.

I found out, that there is a problem with the scrollwheel in Firefox, when
there are Macromedia-UIComponents in the swf.

Without UIComponent:
http://www.freelanders.de/scrollbug/index.html

With UIComponent:
http://www.freelanders.de/scrollbug/index2.html

sorry to be a bit ignorant mate,

My scrollwheel stops working in when I click on the swf with the ComboBox, but
not when I click on the swf without the ComboBox. (What did your mouse say?)

In my project, I used the BIT Components instead of the Macromedia
UIComponents an everything was fine.

It should be possible to find that particular line of actionscript that causes
the scrollwheel-error.

aghh right,

basically on both the links above, i have no problems,
my problems are whenever there is flash ads or flash movie streams, my
scrolling is so bad, i have to go back to the old fashion drag the bar.

i did actually think i had cured it with a reinstall of flash player, but its
back again.

as much as it pains me to say this....iam real tempted to go back to the
dreaded I.E.

as my main interests are gaming, virtually all my sites i visit are every
flash orientated, so to be honest, i dont know what to do.

one thing for sure its dam annoying.