Help with Mozilla Firefox...

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This is probably a really stupid quetsion but I need it answered. Whenever I try to view something on windows media player through firefox it says I need to download the plugin. So I download windows media player (even though its already on my computer) and I still get the same problem. When I click “Click here to download plugin” it says no suitable plugins found, Manual install. So I figure that I need to download windows media player, and it still doesn’t work. This has been bugging me a lot. Is there something I can do to download it and it will work?

I am on a windows 98 SE computer
With firefox 1.0.7 installed.

Thanks…

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Go to Tools >> Options >> Downloads
And click on the Plug-Ins… button
Check to make sure everything there is enabled (has a checkmark by it)
To endable a plug-in you click on the dot
To disable a plug-in you click on the checkmark

Do you have plug-in options there for WAX, WM, WMA, WMV, and WVX files?

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Its weird none of those are in my plugins list. How do I get them in?

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I’m not sure. It’s supposed to be automatic when Firefox installs.

Here’s a page about the popular plug-ins for Firefox
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html

What version of Windows Media Player do you have? Firefox requires version 7.1 or greater. What version of DirectX do you have installed? I don’t know if the version of DirectX would have an effect or not. You can run the DXDIAG utility to find out what version of DirectX you have installed.

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Hmm its weird I have windows media player 9 series on my computer…
I am not sure what verison of DirectX I have is DirectX the same has DivX?

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directX and divX are completely different and do different things.

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Darn I am still stuck, I downloaded the plugin for netscape, and some windows media works, but others don’t on firefox…

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Does it work with IE?

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Yeah it works fine with IE

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I’ll try it on Win 98SE with Firefox when I get some time just to see if it works for me.