I use Firefox most of the time – it does what I want, and it’s set up nicely for me. So, when I go to a page (mostly Microsoft owned sites) that has a SoapBox video on it, I know I’m in for trouble.

Take this post on the Windows Vista Blog about the Microsoft Silverlight DreamScenes.

If I click on any of the controls in the video – I’m instantly redirected to this page:

It’s not as though Firefox can’t play the video – if I can hit Stop quickly enough, it’ll actually play - but they deem it necessary to wrap the “embed” inside an Anchor tag.

IE ofcourse, doesn’t have an issue with this – it passes Click event to the plugin, and then discards it.