Flash player stops

Or - Flash players at the bottom or the page disappear.

In order to conserve system resources, some browsers do not give pages and windows that are in the background (or not visible or "below the fold") any "resources." Only the visible objects are given resources.

NOTE: "Below the fold" means the part of a web page that cannot be seen until the user scrolls down.

Likewise, if a Flash object (e.g. Wimpy) is embedded on a portion of the page that is not visible (below the fold), some browsers will prevent the Flash object from initializing until the user scrolls down to make the Flash object visible. Often times, a Flash object will disappear, or not load properly because the user's browser did not give the Flash player any resources to initialize the Flash object when the page was loaded.

There is no way to control the browser in this respect, since the idea of only providing full resources to the visible objects in the front-most window is the way that the developers of the browser intended the browser to work.

We recommend that Wimpy is always visible, or "above the fold" of your web page. Or, you can set your site up to use an HTML frameset to enable the player to always be available/visible.

Or see the following example of how to set up an HTML frameset:
http://www.wimpyplayer.com/frameset/frameset.html

See Also:

Flash Below the Browser Fold Gotchas