244542 - Video reverts to old version of Windows media player.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193883

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Are Årseth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040524 Firefox/0.8.0+ (stipe)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040524 Firefox/0.8.0+ (stipe)

When viewing this mage with IE, Windows Media Player 9 is used as a player.
However with FireFox it uses WMP 6.4. I've also seen this other places.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the URL mentioned above
1a You can also try any GameSpot video page.

Actual Results:  
Windows Media Player 6.4 will play the movie(s).

Expected Results:  
Windows Media Player 9 should play the movie(s).

Support mail from GameSpot:


Subject: Problem with GameSpot Live

Hello,

Thanks for your e-mail.

It's an issue within the FireFox browser. It revers your version of Windows media
player back to an older version. Because it's a bug with the browser itself, and not
with the site, unfortunately, there's not much we can do about it.

Alex
GameSpot Support

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040524
Firefox/0.8.0+

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

see http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/important.html#WMP and try the workaround there

Dupe of Bug 193883?

Comment 3

[Are Årseth]

The workaround in the registry fixes the problem. This should be added to the
Firefox installer. Closing a window with WMP9 take a long time though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193883 ***