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January 17, 2006
Issues With Shockwave and Firefox 1.5
The release of Firefox 1.5 is causing some issues for Director developers and end-users of the Shockwave Player in that certain system locale settings seem to cause unstable behavior in that float value operations go awry. I personally give credit to Aldo Hoeben for first notifying me of this issue and for clarifying the steps needed to reproduce it, as such folks might give Aldo's blog a read for more details on this issue. Our QA team has reproduced the problem in house and we will soon be posting a tech note on the issue. Of course we've also started a dev investigation into the issue so we can hopefully identify the problem code and see what sort of fix might be needed.
For those truly interested in following this closely, Aldo also went so far as to submit a bug against Firefox directly:
Bugzilla Bug 321704: Firefox 1.5 breaks Shockwave content on non-us systems
Thanks Aldo and everyone that helped you narrow this down.
Posted by thiggins at January 17, 2006 04:15 PM