User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111 If a local .swf file is opened with mozilla, the .swf is only displayed if an URL containing a .swf has been opened before. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make sure the flash (application/x-shockwave-flash) plugin npswf32.dll is installed. 2. Close and Reopen Mozilla Browser 3. File|Open File - select some local .swf file 4. Cancel dialog 5. Open an URL containing an embedded flash (e.g. http://www.macromedia.com/) 6. Repeat step 3 Actual Results: After Step 3, the "Opening ..." dialog appears: 'The file "....swf" is of type application/x-shockwave-flash ... and Mozilla does not know how to handle this file type....' After Step 6, the swf is shown using the plugin. Expected Results: Flash content should be shown after step 3. Problem may also appear with other plugins, not tested yet, sry ... Workaround: See step 6;-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 273785 ***