# FlashVars works in IE but not Firefox

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flashvars-works-in-ie-but-not-firefox/231797
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 8, 2007, 6:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flashvars-works-in-ie-but-not-firefox/231797 "2007-07-08T06:37:00Z")
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### Author: ![artcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ec8ea/32.png) [@artcoder](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/artcoder)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2007, 6:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flashvars-works-in-ie-but-not-firefox/231797/1 "2007-07-08T06:37:00Z")

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I’m trying to pass the name value pair of “topic=services” to my Flash. It works fine in IE, but not in Firefox 2.0. Why?

```auto

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="704" height="454" id="index" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="index.swf?topic=services" /><param name="flashvars" value="topic=services" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#5b7a03" /><embed src="index.swf?topic=services" quality="high" bgcolor="#5b7a03" width="704" height="454" name="index" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="topic=services"/>
</object>

```

I had placed “topic=services” in 4 places in the above. Both in the URL and in the emded and in the param. I have tried spelling it “FlashVars” as well as “flashvar”.

This one have me stumpped.