Timeline control issues in firefox

Question

My flash animation is not loading correctly in Firfox, the
ActionScript I'm using to control the timeline with FlashVars is
not working. I'm am a beginer at this and I don't know the problem.
It is working fine in IE after enabling the ActiveX, as well as in
Safari.
I am creating basicaly a graph that loads values from
FlashVars of which values will be set by database entries using php
or JavaScript (not my portion of the project). Odly enough I have
movie clip symbols in the animation which are working fine. I have
flashvars loading into the movie than I declare new variables
directed within the respective symbols that in effect control the
timeline. The declarations are in the first frame of the main
timeline and look a little like this:
FirstSymbol.FirstVariable = FlashVar;
SecondSymbol.SecondVariable = OtherFlashVar;
and so on. Then within the symbols I have timeline controls
to play the movie at a particular frame according to the variable
values, they look something like this:
if (FirstVariable<=0) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
} else if (FirstVariable>0 & FirstVariable<=1) {
gotoAndStop(3);
} else if (FirstVariable>1 & FirstVariable<=2) {
gotoAndStop(4);
This is all working fine. But the same principal is not
working on the main timeline. I even tried re-declaring a new
variable with the value equaling the imported FlashVar, but it
didn't make a differenence. There is one diference with the bellow
code which is that it is all in a "if, else if" statement. In the
main timeline I have two variables that will control the timeline.
One is to bring the timeline to a certain point (this is not
working), the other is to limit how far the movie will play
according to the value it is givin. So I have the "if, else if"
statement in the begining to make sure it does not go anyware if
the limiting variable is equal to zero. The code I'm using looks
something like this:
stop();
if (LimitingFlashVar<=0)
gotoAndStop(1);
} else if (LimitingFlashVar>0)
if (StartingFlashVar<=0) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
} else if (StartingFlashVar>0 &
StartingFlashVar<=1) {
gotoAndPlay(105);
} else if (StartingFlashVar>1 &
StartingFlashVar<=2) {
gotoAndPlay(209);
} else if (StartingFlashVar>2 &
StartingFlashVar<=3) {
gotoAndPlay(313);
Instead of going to and playing the appropriate frames the
movie just starts playing from the first frame and only stops at
the next ActionScript which tells it to stop. Regardless, it
niether stops at the first frame, nore does it jump to the
appropriate frame. I don't know if this is an ActionScript problem,
as it behaves the same way if the ActiveX is not enabled in IE, but
once it id enabled it works fine in IE, and as I said, Safari.
So what's the deal with Firefox? Is there some Script that
can counter this issue and make it work. I've seen other posts
which seam to address similar issues, and they tell me to "find a
block of code X and insert Y after it", they say:
"If you're having problems getting the Control Flash behavior
to work in Firefox, find this line of code:
var obj=MM_findObj(objStr);
and add this code on the line after it:
if (obj && obj[1]) obj=obj[1]; ..."
I was unable to try this because I'm new at this and I don't
know where that code is to be found or edited. Or is it something
else? Please help. Sorry this is such a long post, but I would
really appreciate some guidence from anyone who can help.

Answer 1

I saw that in my earlier searches (before I posted).
I'm not working with multiple profiles.
from my home directory ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=jhn3pg5a.default
Default=1
Only 1 profile defined and the default flag is set.
Should I be looking somewhere else as to where it's getting it's information from?