Problems with firefox and .swf

[Fudgemaster]

Site: http://www.partanen.net
Mods: overlay for medium & large images and captcha for comments.
Version: Just upgraded 1.4.9 -> 1.4.10
Problem...

Users have recently started to tell that they can't view the flash files on my site.
The problem is in this album (no other has flash in)
http://www.partanen.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=180

I installed a clean Windows XP with newest firefox, newest Opera and IE7
(also tested with default IE within XP SP2).

The flashes played nicely on everything else than firefox that wanted to
download a plugin, and even after installing it, just a white screen is seen,
no flash playing at all.
(http://www.partanen.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-24362)
If I tell firefox to play the .swf with a straight link to it
(http://www.partanen.net/gallery/albums/friday/002.swf) it plays nice,
but not withing the coppermine gallery itself.

What could I do to fix this ?

All I found about firefox was mainly about it showing
the layout diffirently than other browsers..

Thanks.

- Sami

[phill104]

Coppermine just hosts the files so it's not really a coppermine issue.

However it is one I've come across before.

It doesn't sound like the problem has anything to do with Flash, but rather that your web server recognizes .html files as web pages but not .htm files. It's unusual that .htm would not be set properly, but it does match the behavior you describe.
If the web server does not indicate the MIME type, or says that it is unknown, Internet Explorer on Windows tries to guess the type based on the first few bytes of the document, whereas firefox forces you to save the page. The former is arguably more user-friendly, but the latter is definitely more secure.

Check with your server administrator to see if the MIME type for .htm is set to text/html, or if you use Apache, add the line

AddType text/html .html .htm

to the .htaccess file in your web root directory.

[Nibbler]

I don't understand what you mean by that phill104.

Flash works with the classic theme therefore it must be something you have done. Problem solved

[phill104]

Nibbler,

Your right, his site does work in the classic theme. I've had a long day stuck in a bunker screaming at webservers so thought about it the wrong way.

I shall examine the simple before posting next time.

[Fudgemaster]

Nibbler,

Your right, his site does work in the classic theme. I've had a long day stuck in a bunker screaming at webservers so thought about it the wrong way.

I shall examine the simple before posting next time.

I'd like to know how did you manage to view my site with classic theme,
as I have disabled the theme changing from users...

And nope, nothing do to the site after first post.

[Sami]

I'd like to know how did you manage to view my site with classic theme,
as I have disabled the theme changing from users...

try this:
http://www.partanen.net/gallery/?theme=classic

Nibbler is right ( as always ) check your custom theme ....

[Fudgemaster]

Indeed, people who know the code and workarounds usually know stuff

I played around a bit and found out that it's the overlay thingie
(just copy&pasted the code) that makes the flash go non working in
FF and some others occasionally.
Darned..