Anyone really familar with Firefox?

[Moppie]

After to many problems with nastys getting past IE, and having to recently do a clean install Iv started useing firefox (loved the book, didnt think the movie did it justice).

All is well, its much cleaner and easier to use than IE, except for one small and damned annoying problem.

I can't stream media.
No matter what I do it dosnt work.
Iv tried steaming extensions that have no effect, and download with extensions that won't save prefences.

Anyway, XP SP2 and Firefox 1.0.

Any help would be appceiated, anything I post on the firefox forums gets lost on page 11 after 24hrs, and dosn't get a lot in terms of useful responses.

[Jesper]

It works for me (on Windows 2000 as well as XP SP2, both with Firefox 1.0), so at least I can tell you it's not impossible with Firefox. Sorry I can't help you with solving the problem. Do you get any error message, or what happens when you go to a page with streaming media? Maybe the pop-up blocker blocks a window?

[Moppie]

What are you useing to stream?

If I click on a link I get the usual Firefox download pop up, with the usual options.
But it downloads the media, then plays it in the player. Thats not streaming.

With the "download with" extension i get the option in the download pop to select an aplication to use to download the media, or any other file.
There is also an option to save your selection, so next time you click on the same file type it will automaticly send it to the choosen aplication, and not open the firefox download pop up.

Unforunatly its not saving this selection, so I always get the pop up, and have to select what application I want to use.


Im wondering if its simply a bad install, but I can't seem to completly get rid of firefox.
Its saving some prefernces somewhere, like my book marks etc.

[tim]

1) Install firefox.
2) Install quicktime
3) Install shockwave.
4) If 2 & 3 are done before 1, do them again.

If you still have problems, report back.

[Jesper]

Here's an example website: http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl

It is a Dutch website which has some television programmes online, such as the latest news. When I view a programme, I get a pop-up window with an embedded media player in it. It doesn't open Windows Media Player in its own window. It doesn't download the whole file before it starts playing. First it buffers a bit, and then it starts playing while downloading. Just like in Internet Explorer.

What happens if you click one of the links there?

[jrobert]

It depends on which application-programs have registered themselves (on your system) to handle which file-types. Firefox honors that by default. Try the following with one file-type, say .MOV:

In FF, select Tools | Options | Downloads. In the lower window of the dialog, find and select the .MOV filetype. Two more buttons become active - click the 'Change Action' button. You'll see new dialog with the options: 'Open with default application' and the name of that application (in my case it says 'Quicktime'), 'Open with this application', and a browse button, and 'Save to Disk'.

If the default application isn't one that can stream that file-type, as Quicktime, in this case, can do, then use the second option and browse to an application that can stream that file-type and select that. (Of course you'll have to have already installed one)

Back on the Downloads dialog, click the 'plug-ins' button, and on the new dialog that opens, make sure that the appropriate plug-in for this filetype is enabled. This step isn't strictly necessary, though. The plug-in will stream the media within the browser page where the page-designer intended it. If the plug-in isn't enabled, then the chosen application will open a new window and stream the media there. The difference is just personal preference (assuming you have both the application and the plug-in for the file-type).

I like to view quick-time movies in the context of the web-page, so I keep the Quicktime plug-in enabled, but I'd rather view .PDF files with the full Acrobat Reader than with its plug-in, so I keep that plug-in disabled.

Hope some of this helps.

-jeff-

[Moppie]

Thanks guys, however embedded media is not a problem.

It plays all of it perfectly.
Its when the media files are not embedded that I have a problem.

For example the video in the link on this page: http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=236190

If I click on it with IE it will open it in windows media player, buffer and play it.
If I click on it with FF it will download it completely, then send it to windows media player. (this is not live streaming).
There are two extensions I have found that will let me stream it, by sending the URL directly to a choosen aplication.
Download with opens the FF download window, but gives the option to "downloadWith" and will then let me stream it through windows media player.
It also gives the option to save my choice, but it dosnt.
Instead next time I click the link I have to deal with the popup again, reselct WMP.

[Avalonthas]

u gotta hit a link that provides streaming, and therefore if u have the proper plugin/extension, it will stream accordingly. However most sites just provide a link for the movie, but IE automatically opens it up into there media player and plays it as it downloads -- which is one reason some people move to firefox because they hate that feature. When u click the link it will download in the download window, and then u must click "open" once the download is comeplete from the firefox download screen and it will then play in ur default player or the player u set with ur firefox extension.

[Moppie]

, and therefore if u have the proper plugin/extension, it will stream accordingly.



But it won't, and herein lies my problem :D