# Browser issue with preloader & geturl

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/browser-issue-with-preloader-geturl/195007
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 27, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/browser-issue-with-preloader-geturl/195007 "2006-07-27T19:16:52Z")
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### Author: ![jdsony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8edcca/32.png) [@jdsony](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jdsony)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/browser-issue-with-preloader-geturl/195007/1 "2006-07-27T19:16:52Z")

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I’m have two issues with a new version of my site that’s almost complete. First is probably an easy one which is the geturl command. It always opens the links I click on in IE. I would like it to use the default browser.

link\_1.onRelease = function(){  
getURL(“[http://www.naturalropehalters.com/](http://www.naturalropehalters.com/)”, “\_blank”);  
};

The second issue I am having is with my preloader. It works fine in IE but just stops in Firefox. I had this issue before with an older version of the site so I changed the preloader two 2 frames instead of 3 and it worked but I lost my percentage info and just had an animation.

Here is the code which is taken from the Kirupa Advanced Preloader Tutorial.

Frame : 1

loaded\_bytes = Math.round(\_root.getBytesLoaded());  
loaded\_total = Math.round(\_root.getBytesTotal());  
total\_percent = (loaded\_bytes/loaded\_total)_100;  
\_root.loaded\_text = Math.round(total\_percent);  
startpoint = bar.\_x  
\_root.text.\_x = startpoint + (\_root.bar.\_currentframe_2.25);

Frame : 2

gotoAndPlay(1);

The code and components are all part of the main move clip and not seperate. It looks like Kirupa’s example works fine but my implementation doesn’t.