Has anyone using Flash MX 2004 experienced strange behavior with the getURL() function? I use Mozilla Firebird for web browsing, and I've been getting some strange results.
If you can, please follow along:
* Create a blank Flash document
* Type this action on frame 1: getURL("akjlhsd");
* Test the movie
Tell me what happens. On my system, a new instance of Firebird will open with 2 tabs. The first tab will be untitled, and the second tab opens up to some website that I've never seen until today.
It's rather funny, I think. I've also had it randomly open to this article in the Microsoft knowledge base. It looks like the second tab that opens is automatically submitting a google search and opening up the first link in the search results page.
Additionally, doing a getURL("some.zip") and testing it locally produces the same strange result.
Now, the question is, what is the root of this problem? Is this specific to only my system, is this a bug in Flash somehow with Firebird as the default web browser, or is this a bug in Firebird with how new documents are opened? If you have any ideas, I'd be interested in hearing them.
1 Comment
maybe you already found out the answer. essentially firebird returns the top result from a google search using what's in the location bar if it doesn't point to a valid URL. type akjlhsd into google now and it returns your blog entry...
Posted by: Anonymous | July 13, 2004 11:43 AM