140042 - won't load real player

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 133282

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Kirk]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

When attempting to view one of the news videos it prompts you to install Real
Player - - though I did have it installed I downloaded and re-installed it and
it still prompts me to install Real  Player

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on ANY news video link
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:  Prompts for installation of Real Player
Real Player does not set up for Mozilla for some reason

Expected Results:  News video to view properly
though it could be with NECN.com also


I've had problems with this site in Netscape at times also - 
additionally - it doesn't seem  to use my NAV when I download a file - FYI

Comment 1

[av (gone)]

Confirming with WinXP.

The RealPlayer is not seen in the about:plugins page.

Works just fine after I manually copy nppl3260.dll from the Components folder to
the Plugins folder. Something changed in a way we scan folders. 

Another thing I noticed is that the change in the plugins folder is no longer
picked up by reloading about:plugins, I need to restart to see the change.

Comment 2

[rubydoo123]

Right, Real8 is using the xpcom method and consequently the dll gets installed 
in the components directory and not the plug-ins directory. Once we get the scan 
problem worked through, this will be resolved.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133282 ***

Comment 3

[shrirang khanzode]

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