There was (may still be) a problem with Firefox reloading / restarting Flash elements or Java applets if the element/applet or any of it's parents changed position or display state (such as display: none -> display: block).
I will try and find the link to the bugzilla bug. Karl Rudd On 8/28/07, EdMartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a page with a slideDown menu. It also contains a number of Java > applets. This causes a problem on Firefox 2.0.0.6. If a Java applet is > running and I click the link to slide down the menu the applet > reloads. It doesn't do it on slideUp, and neither slideDown nor > slideUp provokes any applet reloading on IE6, IE7, or Opera. There's > no reloading on any browser I've tested if I use fadeIn instead of > slideDown. So my temporary fix is to browser-detect and fadeIn for > Mozilla and slideDown for everything else. > > I'd love to know what is caused the applet reload on Firefox, though. > > Can anyone shed any light? > >
