For years (literally over 2 years) my company has been dealing with an issue where after loging into the intranet using any Mozilla browser (including Netscape and Firefox), it would direct you to the favicon.ico rather than the home page. We are using a protected Java Servlet on a JBoss server to serve up the intranet pages. If the favicon was not present, it would give a 404 error or would say it had not been defined. I’ve spent...

Today I was attempting to test my flash detection scripts, so I wanted to install a different, older version of the Flash player plugin in my browser. I went out to Macromedia’s website, where they have a page full of Archived Macromedia Flash Players available for testing purposes. While this page seemed like the answer at the time, once I started trying to uninstall the current version (well documented on macromedia.com) and install...

Ever tried to remove the gradient from the DataGrid Component in Flash MX 2004? I know I sure did! Supposedly you can just change some movie clip in the standardTheme.fla and add it to your movie or something but after following all of the tutorials out there (none of which talked about DataGrid), nothing was working for me. I even tried going through the forums and saw that others were looking for a solution, but to no avail. Well, after a...