274153 - firefox will not recognize WMP 10 as plug in asks to dnld wmp 9 system aborts when wmp 10 is found video will not load/play

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[philip jacobs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

firefox will not recognize WMP 10 as plug in asks to dnld wmp 9 system aborts
when wmp 10 is found video will not load/play

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.new dnld to clean folder X3 can't play vids from site abov always asks for
dnld of wmp9 syst aborts when wmp 10 dected
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
replicated above

Expected Results:  
recognised wmp 10 and added it as wmv/a plugin

no crash just won't recognize wmp 10 as valid plugin firefox wants wmp9.0 when
wmp 10 is installed.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** Bug 280221 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** Bug 285199 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

This also happens at
http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/ apparently.

Comment 4

[Jim Jeffery not reading bug-mail 1/2/11]

Does NOT work for me either, was prompted for WMP 9

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050422
Firefox/1.0+
WinXP SP2 WMP 10

Comment 5

[Jim Ginn]

I have a feeling that this is caused by bad plugin detection by the site and has
nothing to do with the plug-in service. If someone feels like checking the
detection code you can view all the gory details at
http://www.mtv.com/global/apps/mediaplayer/scripts/wmp_detect.js

Also, the Daily Show site works fine for me.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050317
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 6

[Michael]

http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/resources/wmp9.reg

I can't find any videos on that site to see what you're talking about, but have
you applied the registry file linked above that is posted throughout Mozilla. It
should get installed with Firefox installer but some users have complained that
it doesn't. Also have you gone through the sticky under Firefox Support forums.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=206213

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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