Flash issues on Windows

I have a website here and you'll see that I have a little Flex 4.5 app I made to display some images (book covers).

This app runs fine on Chrome (as always) but sometimes chokes for people accessing my site from IE and FF running on a windows platform..

The 'choke' in question is :

-- either not displaying anything at all, (not even the customary adobe logo prompting users to download the newest flash plugin) just a black screen, no progress bars or anything.

-- taking too long on the 'second' progress bar.

-- sometimes, after a few refreshes, a 2046 error comes up too. (on linux too)

I'd like to know whether any of you has run into this and if there are any fixes.

Thanks.

P.S.: I'm aware that this post looks like self-advertising but I think that the link to my website is relevant here.

P.S.2: Once more I'm delighted with Chrome and disappointed i开发者_如何学运维n the other browsers.. Why doesn't Adobe create their own browser?? It would solve half the world's problems..

First, I'd like to question as to why you're using Flex for such a tiny piece of information. You'd be better off creating a pure Actionscript project since Flex is overkill for this and would take longer to load. Flex is made for RIA; this is not an RIA.

Second, have you tried to use SWFObject which is part of the Flash Builder release process (or you can do it manually)? The object tag in HTML isn't consistent across all browsers (especially IE) and SWFObject removes that incompatibility.

As for your other issues, I would imagine it's a problem with your code and 'timing'.