ACK! More Firefox issues

[cyberhap]

I had a few issues that a mere re-install of Flash fixed. Thanks for those that helped.

Now I have a quicktime issue: I have quicktime (latest version) installed, and when I visit some sites (YTMND for example), and click on one of the pages to view, I get the visuals but not the sound. On this site, FF is saying that "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page".

When I click to install the missing plugins, it says I need Quicktime (which I have). I go through the plugin install (it says FF finished installing the missing plugins) and click Finish. If I refresh the page, I get the "Additional plugins" message again. And again. And again.

I wanna be a 100% FF convert, and I love the things I can do in FF, but I still find I have to use IE for some sites. What the hell am I doing wrong?

Sorry for the noobness.

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Not sure why that's happening, but I don't use Quicktime. I use Quicktime Alternative. Works fine with FF. Quicktime is bloated crap: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4100.html

Uninstall Quicktime first before installing it.

While you're at it replace Real Player with Real Alternative: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4094.html

Hope this helps...

 

[crimson117]

What type of sound file is embedded in the page?

You may need to go into quicktime and manually set quicktime as the application to handle that file type. Do the same in Firefox Tools>Options>Downloads, "Open with Quicktime".

 

[gsaldivar]

YTMND isn't currently Firefox-friendly AFAIK.

 

[gsaldivar]

BTW I use this Firefox-extension to add an option in the right-clink menu that allows you to "View this page in IE":

http://ieview.mozdev.org/screenshots.html

 

[cyberhap]

Thanks for the help all. I tried everything, but I'm guessing some sites just aren't FF friendly. I do like the alt versions of QT and RP, thanks FlyingPenguin. I also dl'd the "View in IE" extension, so if I need to, I can hit that for sites like YTMND.

If anyone else has sound while running YTMND in FF, I'd love to know how you did it

 

[crimson117]

Originally posted by: cyberhap
If anyone else has sound while running YTMND in FF, I'd love to know how you did it

I got it to work exactly the way I described to you... well a little different

At first, bogus.ytmnd.com didn't work in ff, but it did in ie.

So I went into quicktime, did edit>preferences>quicktime preferences, browser settings, MIME settings button, audio tree, and put a check in the WAVE audio box. Click okay, etc, exit quicktime, restart firefox, and it should work.

 

[cyberhap]

Crimson117 , thank you thank you thank you! I did what you said to do the first time, and it didn't work. And then I updated the WAVE checkbox and it still didn't work. But when I ran bogus.ytmnd.com it worked OK.

That's when I realized that both the WAVE and MP3 needed checked. The site runs fine now. Damn plugins!

 

[crimson117]

Glad to help! Firefox really could use some improvement in this area.