Matlab browser: Shockwave Flash causes 'Illegal Operation in Plugin' error.

When opening any web page using Flash within the Matlab browser, an error occurs. It causes a series of windows to open, notifying me of the error and renders the page unresponsive. Once all error windows have been closed, the browser page goes blank.

The message shown by the window is as follows: *Illegal Operation in Plug-in

Shockwave Flash

The plug-in performed an illegal operation. You are strongly advised to restart Deer Park.*

An example piece of code involving this problem might be:

    web('www.cnn.com')

Is there any way to either resolve this issue entirely, or merely instruct Matlab to ignore anything on a webpage that Flash? I do not have the luxury of using another browser such as Firefox for my particular application.

Thank you for your time, help, and consideration!

Answer 1

[Jan]

Please send this question to TMW as enhancement request or bug report. I do not assume that the forum can solve this problem.

How can a "Deer Park" be restarted? Buying new animals?

[Walter Roberson]

Deer Park was the code-name for Firefox 1.5 beta and Firefox 2.0 beta. That suggests that buried somewhere in the browser is a resource mapping file that could be configured to say that flash were unknown.

[Walter Roberson]

... but I cannot seem to find anything relevant at the moment in the OS-X version.

[Image Analyst]

When I go to the Apps tab and click the "Get More Apps" button, it activates my Firefox (version 17) app and brings up the File Exchange. I don't know why Christopher can't just install Firefox 17 and have it use that, like it does for me, especially since Walter says he's basically using Firefox anyway, just a dinosaur version of it. Adobe Flash has been having a bunch of problems over the past 6 months with supposedly more robust bug-fixed versions being released every 5 minutes or so - they just can't seem to get it right.

[Walter Roberson]

It's a matter of what you get to if you have web() calls in your MATLAB code. I confirm on OS-X what you get is a browser that is not the current version of firefox.

Dum dee dum dum... Ah yes, the source for web() is there. If no special options are given, then if the file is under docroot then the help browser is used, and otherwise it does a

com.mathworks.mde.webbrowser.WebBrowser.createBrowser

which presumably is off to Java-Java land. Definitely not the system browser.

You can use the '-browser' option of web() to request that the system browswer be used.