388129 - Firefox crashes while viewing embedded videos

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bob]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4

While watching embedded videos playing on any website site thru windows media player firefox crashes.  Have tried updating to new version of windows media player, uninstalling and install older versions.  Only crashes when being played with media player, will not crash with quicktime, flash player etc

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to any website 
2.play embedded video from website
3.watch firefox crash
Actual Results:  
nothing special

Expected Results:  
have to restart firefox and restore session

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

try with this plugin, if it helps:
http://port25.technet.com/pages/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download.aspx

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

reporter, do you have any news about suggested solutions?

Comment 4

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

works for me in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008041506 Minefield/3.0pre ID:2008041506

-> Worksforme

Also no reply since over 6 Months, if you still see this problem in the latest Firefox Trunk Build of Firefox 3 Beta 5, feel free to reopen this bug.