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MovieClipLoader onLoadError event does not fire in Firefox when a non-existent domain is targeted

Today at work we ran into another flash player / browser inconsistency. When using MovieClipLoader to load an external asset, the onLoadError event doesn't fire in Firefox when trying to load an asset from a non-existent domain. In fact, the onLoadStart event doesn't even fire. The other MovieClipLoader events don't fire but they shouldn't, there isn't any progress and the load never reaches completion or initialization. Read full article