Flash + Opera (a good mix, but problems?)

[Sux0rZh@jc0rz]

I am having a problem with Opera and Flash....

Opera plays flash movies perfectly and i love opera (down with IE!) but i have a problem when it comes to updating flash movies on a webserver....

Say i have a movie, Flash.swf, and i view it in opera. then i update it in macromedia, change it completely, and then upload it to the server. Then i go to the same page again with Flash.swf, and it shows the older version. I beleive this is a cache'ing issue and it could probably be solved by changing the .swf's name to Flash01.swf, update then it's Flash02.swf, but that would entitle me changing the HTML every time i wanted to update my site. My question is, Why does this happen? Can I turn it off without removing caching of images? And is it worth it just to change the flashname and allow my opera users to keep the movies cached so they dont have to reload? I didnt know this happened. never heard of this...bug... before.

[DaveSW]

I remember having that trouble before. I just kept pressing refresh...

[Jona]

Hold Shift and press the refresh button... I've never used Opera, but down with IE! Let's all just start using Mozilla Firebird! :p


[J]ona

[Sux0rZh@jc0rz]

a friend of mine solved it for me...

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">//no-cache
<meta http-equiv="no-cache">//no-cache
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1">//load from server
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">//no-cache

[nkaisare]

I am having a problem with Opera
In fact its one of the great "features" in Opera. By far, I liked Opera's caching the best. Moz firebird is probably good too, but I haven't yet downloaded it on my home computer (which is on 56.6 dialup). Thats where superior caching makes the most difference.

a friend of mine solved it for me...
Thats an option. But then it means that every time your visitors visit your site, all the contents will have to be downloaded again for those pages. If its just about you checking out your site as you build it, its better to use force-reload (shift-F5).

Let's all just start using Mozilla Firebird!
:)
Nay, I am not yet ready to give up Opera. Mouse gestures, tabbed browsing, google/alltheweb/amazon search box, find-as-you-type, user styles, popup block switching using F-12 and page zoom are some of the features that I have gotten hooked on to. Yeah yeah, Firebird can do all that... but I don't care at this moment. Opera rulz enuff!! :)

[PeOfEo]

I am a firebird user first of all and these are the areas that I think that firebird and opera can improve on. I wish opera and mozilla did their downloads differently. I like the ie download boxes the most, I mean opera's is annoying because its in the tab and mozilla's pops up every time I clock save or something it just gets annoying. I also do not like how mozilla and other browsers that are ns-based handled certain java scripts and dhtml.