# Getting External FLV's to be paused

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-external-flvs-to-be-paused/301941>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 18, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-external-flvs-to-be-paused/301941 "2009-12-18T03:39:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-external-flvs-to-be-paused/301941/1 "2009-12-18T03:39:25Z")

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Hi, I am having issues with MovieClips linking to HTML files on Firefox and I think part of the problem may be that the links aren’t working in Firefox because of the browser waiting for the video to load. Here is my code:

container.addChild(vid);  
vid.autoPlay=false;  
vid.source=“video3.flv”;  
vid.skin=“SkinOverPlaySeekStop.swf”;  
vid.skinBackgroundColor = 0x555555;  
vid.skinBackgroundAlpha = 0.7;  
vid.height=480;  
vid.width=640;  
vid.x=305;  
vid.y=90;

The vid.autoPlay=false; does seem to do anything.