February 15th 2002 | Jens C Brynildsen

MX bug - bugs Macromedia

About a week ago, a bug was discovered in the Flash Player 6. Files that are streamed into the ActiveX-version of the plugin don't terminate properly.

Now media are catching up on this story, and even small publications are doing stories on this bug. If you have a music-selector on your Flash-page, clicking the different tunes would usually stop downloading the previously streamed file. In the new Flash Player 6, the download will continue for any file loaded this way until the whole file is loaded. Even if you close down your whole browser the stream will continue. Now stories are popping up claiming that Flash could crash whole machines by just starting a lot of big streams and thereby occupying all available bandwidth.

The bug was first discovered by members on the FlashKit board, but many other sites such as ActionScript.com has followed it up. Macromedia is working to fix this bug as well as others and the player has been through two revisions already since it's release. The bug does not affect Mac or Netscape users, only IE on PC. The question is: will they work fast enough to avoid bad press?
Read more at ActionScript.com

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