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The problem only happens with getURL, knew that.
I found ths problem quite interesting until I found the boringly logical explanation.
Anyway, maybe Firefox won't do it if Flash Player 8 is sending...

asheep was right.

I tried about twenty links to existant files and five to nonexistant, makes no difference.

Firefox 1.06 (on this PC) misinterprets the command Flash Player sends to it. The...

Hmm... either Flash Player sends Firefox this
http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=work
or this is how Firefox interprets what Flash Player is saying.
Got the...

It appears not.

I would like to know what line Flash Player is sending Firefox to make it go to the same site every time. Apparently there's no way of finding out.

OK - I think this is what it's doing. But no matter what filename the link leads to, howstuffworks.com always comes up. So what's Flash Player sending it?

If you key a filename into the address...

Nothing that severe: links beginning with http all work fine from Flash Player, from desktop and everywhere else.

It's only local links (in swf files stored on my HDD that are playing in...

Just done more tests. A link to any-filename.anyextension (whether the file exists or not) produces the same result (as long as Firefox is NOT running when I click the link): two tabs open up, active...

No, no, I made the image. And it happens when opening links to all offline jpgs. Flash Player 7 does the same thing. howstuffworks.com isn't a harmful site either - it's pretty good!

Not actually...

I was previewing a movie offline in Flash Player 6 and I clicked a link to a .jpg file stored in the same folder as the swf. At this point no browser was open.

Firefox 1.06 (my default browser)...