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orionf55460468
Inspiring
September 10, 2017
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Navigate to URL "_blank" now freezes main website since last Adobe update

  • September 10, 2017
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Hi all,

My first post. I'm totally at a loss since the last Adobe update. Tried other computers, and browsers, all the same symptoms.

What occurs: 

     User clicks a download button (document, zip file, jpeg), which opens in a new tab, or just downloads directly. {All good originally}

     User can then go back to the original website tab and browse more. {Since last update, user can no longer press any buttons on the original website. It's magically frozen solid.}

I've used this code previously: (_blank)

     navigateToURL(urlRequest, "_blank");   {This  used to work well}

So, now the main website is stuck/frozen/inoperative, the only thing the user can do is reload the entire website from scratch to make it function again. ie, back to the beginning page.

Although I don't know any better, I've used:

     stage.focus = {{button that was pressed}};

This was in the hope I could somehow get the button/website resurrected when the user returned... But nothing happens.

I tried this: (_self)

      navigateToURL(urlRequest, "_self");

Which is terrible workaround. It loads the document into the main website space and therefore the back button returns to the main webpage start, losing their location. However, the user can still 'use' and access the main website.

I am almost a complete newbie hack. I mostly work in the art field and CAD, so this is pretty difficult stuff for me. Though I'm a champ at Visual Basic, which in no way translates to Flash Action Script.    It's just left me confused and disheartened....

Anybody have any ideas?

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Correct answer orionf55460468

Ok, we have a winner. Scrubbing Firefox from each of the computers affected, restarting and reinstalling has fixed the problem.

Thanks everyone for your help!

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orionf55460468
orionf55460468AuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
September 11, 2017

Ok, we have a winner. Scrubbing Firefox from each of the computers affected, restarting and reinstalling has fixed the problem.

Thanks everyone for your help!

kglad
Community Expert
kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 10, 2017

it's not clear what you're doing but it works for me and will open multiple tabs as expected.

and what do you mean about an adobe update?  do you mean a flash player update?

orionf55460468
orionf55460468Author
Inspiring
September 10, 2017

Hi Kglad, yes, the Flash Player Update.

Since then, my master website just goes static. No buttons can be pressed, no items are clickable, (once it opens a new tab and the user returns.)

However, there is 'one' thing that does still remain working on the website, I just found out, that's the scroll-bar (I think from memory, it's one of the Animates built in objects.)

So, everything just freezes except for the scroll bar, (on the original website).

EDIT: It's almost as if there is some magical invisible wall preventing a user from touching anything, when they return from another tab....

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
September 11, 2017

Hi Klad,

It's actually worse than I thought. One only needs to do this:

1. Open website. www.gunslave.com (Takes a bit to load, it's picture heavy)

2. Open a separate new tab in your browser, and click on it. (Any website or random blank page)

3. Go back to the www.gunslave.com tab. <- And now it's frozen with no buttons accessible, only using the mouse scroll wheel still functions.


It works fine in Chrome. With Firefox some of the button rollovers don't work, but clicking the buttons work ok.

You're only doing Object tags, and not Embed tags, which will stop the site from working in some browsers. See articles like this one on how to do embed as well:

Inserting Flash into HTML - InMotion Hosting

I don't know why Firefox stops showing some of the rollovers.

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