# MOUSE\_UP, Firefox, Mac (outside swf area)

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-up-firefox-mac-outside-swf-area/231848
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 8, 2007, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-up-firefox-mac-outside-swf-area/231848 "2007-07-08T21:39:58Z")
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### Author: ![snoken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@snoken](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/snoken)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2007, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-up-firefox-mac-outside-swf-area/231848/1 "2007-07-08T21:39:58Z")

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Hmm, this has always been a problem. Couls simply be solved in flash 6+ by registering your mouse events on a movieclip on stage rather then using a mouse event listener.

Anyway, now we only have the listener option which makes the events to stop as soon as the mouse pointer outside the swf bounding-box…

Big problem when using drag & drop action in games etc.

On mac, safari seems ok. Tried on PC/XP IE6 + Firefox and seems to work. But in firefox or Camino and similar on Os X the mouse up event is never triggered if mouse is pressed within the swf, but released outside… (even if listening to the stage).

I know there is a Stage.mouseLeave, but that won’t work as long as the mouse is pressed and It will still stop updating the mouse x/y positions…

Hmm, any tricks here!?!?