Fullscreen doesn't work in Firefox

programming flash
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Hi.
Following problem:
I take the FLVPlayback-Component and drag it onto the stage. I enter the source URL of my FLV and of the skin. Then I put it online, to test it.

In the Internet Explorer, everything works well.
In Firefox, at first: yes, it works too. I click on the fullscreen-button, it switches to fullscreen. And with ESC or clicking the button again, I get back to the normal view.

However: if I exit the fullscreen view via ESC and not by clicking the button again, then I can’t enter the fullscreen view again, until I restart the browser. Then it works again. Using the buttons I can switch back and forth, except if I use ESC, then it won’t work anymore. Except maybe once every 50 clicks or so. Clicking the fullscreen button after having exited fullscreen mode earlier, the browser flickers for a second, seemingly switch the mode to fullscreen for a fraction of a second and instantly exiting again.

After wasting lots of hours on this, I found out following:

  • it does not depend on my Firefox alone, I tested it on several computers and everywhere the same symptons
  • it does not depend on how I embed the swf-File into the page. I tried it with and without SWFObject
  • it does not depend on the swf-File in general, since I don’t do anything wrong there (there ain’t much to do wrong when you just enter a skin- and flv-URL)
  • if I create a button myself that forces the app to go fullscreen, that works. The one in the playback component has still the same problems.

As such: the FLV-Playback-Komponent seems to be broken. I use version 2.1.something. I tried using 2.5, but just by dragging it onto the stage I’m bombarded with error messages that seem to tell me I didn’t import necessary files, and those don’t go away even if I import fl.*.

I even tried adding my own EventListener to the fullscreen-button of the playback component to force it to go fullscreen with my own code, that didn’t change anything.

I could remove the button, or just choose a skin without fullscreen, and keep adding my custom button. But that wouldn’t solve the problem.

Anyone go any ideas? Thanks for reading.

Edit:
Tried now reinstalling Firefox, disabling all Addons etc, still doesn’t work.