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I have from time to time come across pages where a pop-up says a
plugin needs to be installed, but when I click on it to find plugins
it never finds any. Loading up the same page in Opera will run
whatever. I have Win98SE and MP 6.4 but Windows media won't run in
Firefox. I can make Real run with RealAlternative but not Windows
media. What can I do?

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:24:39 +1300, in message
<>, GraB wrote:

> I have from time to time come across pages where a pop-up says a
> plugin needs to be installed, but when I click on it to find plugins
> it never finds any.

See the links at the top of the page which appears when you enter
aboutlugins
into Firefox's URL bar.

Or simply try these ...

• Popular plug-ins: http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/plugins.jsp
• Search for plug-ins: http://channels.netscape.com/ns/brow..._search_pi.jsp
• Help for installing plug-ins: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/


> Loading up the same page in Opera will run
> whatever. I have Win98SE and MP 6.4 but Windows media won't run in
> Firefox.

For Windows media and Firefox, see these
• http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html#WMP
• http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/important.html#WMP
• http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=167260


> I can make Real run with RealAlternative but not Windows
> media. What can I do?

--
Cheers,
Ralph

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GraB wrote:
> I have from time to time come across pages where a pop-up says a
> plugin needs to be installed, but when I click on it to find plugins
> it never finds any.

I use to have the same problem. If I remember correctly, it was because
I had Firefox set to block installation of programmes... Check your
options.

Options --> Web Features --> Allow websites to install software

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 00:10:35 +1300, Man in Yellow Hat
<> wrote:

>GraB wrote:
>> I have from time to time come across pages where a pop-up says a
>> plugin needs to be installed, but when I click on it to find plugins
>> it never finds any.
>
>I use to have the same problem. If I remember correctly, it was because
>I had Firefox set to block installation of programmes... Check your
>options.
>
>Options --> Web Features --> Allow websites to install software

Off course, that makes sense.

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:48:00 +0000, Ralph Fox
<> wrote:

>On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:24:39 +1300, in message
><>, GraB wrote:
>
>> I have from time to time come across pages where a pop-up says a
>> plugin needs to be installed, but when I click on it to find plugins
>> it never finds any.
>
>See the links at the top of the page which appears when you enter
> aboutlugins
>into Firefox's URL bar.
>
>Or simply try these ...
>
> • Popular plug-ins: http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/plugins.jsp
> • Search for plug-ins: http://channels.netscape.com/ns/brow..._search_pi.jsp
> • Help for installing plug-ins: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/
>
>
>> Loading up the same page in Opera will run
>> whatever. I have Win98SE and MP 6.4 but Windows media won't run in
>> Firefox.
>
>For Windows media and Firefox, see these
> • http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html#WMP
> • http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/important.html#WMP
> • http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=167260
>
>
>> I can make Real run with RealAlternative but not Windows
>> media. What can I do?

I reinstalled MP6.4 but still no luck. I won't install any later
version of MP. Why should I? It works fine in Opera so why won't
Firefox run with it?

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:34:11 +1300, GraB <> wrote:

>On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 00:10:35 +1300, Man in Yellow Hat
><> wrote:
>
>>GraB wrote:
>>> I have from time to time come across pages where a pop-up says a
>>> plugin needs to be installed, but when I click on it to find plugins
>>> it never finds any.
>>
>>I use to have the same problem. If I remember correctly, it was because
>>I had Firefox set to block installation of programmes... Check your
>>options.
>>
>>Options --> Web Features --> Allow websites to install software
>
>Off course, that makes sense.

No this doesn't work. It still doesn't find the plugin.

GraB <> wrote in
news::

> I can make Real run with RealAlternative but not Windows
> media. What can I do?
>

I have XP, not 98. My problem was similar until I reinstalled windows
media player. I used the installation file that is in my program files
folder.
C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\Installer\mpsetupxp.exe

I have version 9 and I adjusted the associations to only use wma files
and a few others windows media specific ones. I try to use media player
classic as much as possible myself, but wma streams would not open.
Manually adjusting the associations in firefox wasn't working, so I did
the reinstall. That fixed it. Of course Microsft took over a bunch of
file associations, but I fixed that by going into the settings of Windows
Media Player.

Maybe you could try adding the wmp9 or 10 codec pack only?


--
Ciao, Dave

In article <> in nz.comp on
Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:41:33 +1300, GraB <> says...
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:48:00 +0000, Ralph Fox
> <> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:24:39 +1300, in message
> ><>, GraB wrote:
> >
> >> I have from time to time come across pages where a pop-up says a
> >> plugin needs to be installed, but when I click on it to find plugins
> >> it never finds any.
> >
> >See the links at the top of the page which appears when you enter
> > aboutlugins
> >into Firefox's URL bar.
> >
> >Or simply try these ...
> >
> > • Popular plug-ins: http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/plugins.jsp
> > • Search for plug-ins: http://channels.netscape.com/ns/brow..._search_pi.jsp
> > • Help for installing plug-ins: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/
> >
> >
> >> Loading up the same page in Opera will run
> >> whatever. I have Win98SE and MP 6.4 but Windows media won't run in
> >> Firefox.
> >
> >For Windows media and Firefox, see these
> > • http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html#WMP
> > • http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/important.html#WMP
> > • http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=167260
> >
> >
> >> I can make Real run with RealAlternative but not Windows
> >> media. What can I do?
>
> I reinstalled MP6.4 but still no luck. I won't install any later
> version of MP. Why should I? It works fine in Opera so why won't
> Firefox run with it?

why should you? because later windows media formats are not supported by
WMP 6.4

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:06:38 +1300, Adder <> wrote:

>In article <> in nz.comp on
>Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:41:33 +1300, GraB <> says...
>> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:48:00 +0000, Ralph Fox
>> <> wrote:
>>
>> >On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:24:39 +1300, in message
>> ><>, GraB wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have from time to time come across pages where a pop-up says a
>> >> plugin needs to be installed, but when I click on it to find plugins
>> >> it never finds any.
>> >
>> >See the links at the top of the page which appears when you enter
>> > aboutlugins
>> >into Firefox's URL bar.
>> >
>> >Or simply try these ...
>> >
>> > • Popular plug-ins: http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/plugins.jsp
>> > • Search for plug-ins: http://channels.netscape.com/ns/brow..._search_pi.jsp
>> > • Help for installing plug-ins: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/
>> >
>> >
>> >> Loading up the same page in Opera will run
>> >> whatever. I have Win98SE and MP 6.4 but Windows media won't run in
>> >> Firefox.
>> >
>> >For Windows media and Firefox, see these
>> > • http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html#WMP
>> > • http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/important.html#WMP
>> > • http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=167260
>> >
>> >
>> >> I can make Real run with RealAlternative but not Windows
>> >> media. What can I do?
>>
>> I reinstalled MP6.4 but still no luck. I won't install any later
>> version of MP. Why should I? It works fine in Opera so why won't
>> Firefox run with it?
>
>why should you? because later windows media formats are not supported by
>WMP 6.4
>
That seems to only be wmv v9. And that isn't worth bothering about.
I had MP9 installed for about an hour recently before I took it off
again.

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:41:33 +1300, in message
<>, GraB wrote:

> I reinstalled MP6.4 but still no luck. I won't install any later
> version of MP. Why should I? It works fine in Opera so why won't
> Firefox run with it?


OK, so you have WMP version 6.4, and not a later version (e.g. those
Firefox help links were for WMP version 7.1 or later).


1. Go look in Firefox's plugins directory "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins".

Is the WMP 6.4 plugin DLL file "npdsplay.dll" in that directory?

If not, can you copy the file "npdsplay.dll" from another
directory, e.g. the Netscape 4 plugins directory
"C:\Program Files\Netscape\Communicator\Program\Plugins"
or the equivalent Opera plugins directory?


2. enter
aboutlugins
into Firefox's URL bar.

Does the list of plugins which appears, include this?

| Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library
|
| File name: C:\PROGRAM FILES\MOZILLA FIREFOX\plugins\npdsplay.dll
| Npdsplay dll
|
| MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
| --------------------- ----------- -------- -------
| application/asx Media Files * Yes
| video/x-ms-asf-plugin Media Files * Yes
| application/x-mplayer2 Media Files * Yes


--
Cheers,
Ralph

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