Tip #3856 - A Little Firefox Media
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Little Firefox Media
A lot of Web sites
these days require you to use the Windows Media Player program for playing
audio and video content that is actually embedded on the site. Now, if
a user is using Internet Explorer, this works flawlessly, most of the
time. However, the real problem arises when accessing that kind of content
on a non-Microsoft browser. You know, like the ever popular Mozilla Firefox,
for instance.
Standard Windows Media
Player plug-in files are included with most of the Windows operating systems
and they are usually automatically detected by the Firefox browser. However,
in Vista and at times on some of the other Windows systems, the files
are missing. This means that if you access any Web sites that have embedded
multimedia content, you will receive an error that tells you it’s
a case of an invalid or missing plug-in. You will then be instructed to
reinstall Windows Media Player, which still doesn't solve your problem.
To avoid these problems
and a few other issues once and for all, Windows Vista and XP SP2 users
can now install the new Windows Media Player Firefox plug-in. This plug-in
works for Firefox versions of 1.5 and later.
To install the plug-in
for yourself, just click on this link.
Simply download the
installer file to your computer, close your Firefox browser and then run
the installer. The plug-in will be installed under the plug-ins directory
in the C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox folder.
Now, another alternative
to this plug-in installation is the Windows Media Player extension for
Firefox. This extension allows you to launch the video that is embedded
in a Web site to an external application. This extension works not only
with Windows Media Player, but also with Real Media, QuickTime, Nullsoft
Video and so on.
The video stream is
replaced by a simple button that, when pressed, launches the media in
a separate application, instead of within the browser. This is also useful
in the way that it won’t slow down your browser, just simply because
a big video is being loaded.
To install this Firefox
plug-in, click here.
So, all in all, if
you are using Firefox and are having problems accessing Windows media
content on your favorite Web sites, either of the above two options should
work for you. Give them a try today!
~ Yogesh Bakshi
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