Troubleshooting
Player not showing in Firefox 3
- Do you have the Adblock extension installed? In Firefox 3 Adblock incorrectly blocks Flash content, even if your entire page is whitelisted. In this case just disable Flash block. Or use Adblock Plus instead.
- Just make sure that you have the required minimum version of the Flash Player installed.
- Ensure that you don’t have a corrupt Flash Player by uninstalling the Flash Player using the Adobe uninstaller and by reinstalling the plug-in via the Adobe Flash Player installation page.
Taken from the swfobject 2.0 FAQ page.
“Endless buffering” in Firefox on Windows
Update: Flash Player 10 is out of beta. Go get it now!
Update: Apparently, Flash 10 beta has fixed this issue.
The following combination can cause Audio Player to stop functioning:
- Windows
- Firefox (2 or 3)
- Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124 (and maybe 9.0.115). Go to this page to check which version is installed on your browser
- More than 15 Flash players open in Firefox (in one or several tabs or windows)
When you have 16 or more players open, the mp3 files load but never start so it looks like the player is stuck in “endless buffering” mode. Once this happens, you have to restart Firefox to get it back to normal (until you load another 16 players at once that is).
Solution:
Until Adobe (or Mozilla, I’m not sure who’s to blame) fixes this, all you can do is try to limit the number of players you embed on one page. If you are going to use multiple players on one page, make sure you limit that number to something reasonable (I would say 10 at the most).