278760 - (Crash_on_WMP_Stream) Firefox Crashes with Windows Media Player 10

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Brett Patterson]

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

After visiting http://www.collegehumor.com and browsing their funny video
collection, I clicked on a file for Windows Media Player to play.  Firefox
opened WMP 10 as it used to do with previous versions of WMP, and then stopped
responding and crashed.  Quicktime and Java work perfectly fine, but WMP will
not stream the media.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open CollegeHumor.com (or any other media website)
2. Find a Windows Media formatted video file
3. Click the link to try and open it

Actual Results:  
Firefox seemed like it was trying to access the page.  The cursor stayed the
hand even while over non-anchored text, and firefox crashed.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have played the embedded Windows Media File with Windows Media
Player 10.

Windows XP Pro
Firefox 1.0
Noia 2 Extreme theme
NO customized configs

THe default windows Error Reporting box pops up.

Comment 1

[matink]

Firefox crashes on my Windows XP installation whenever I try to play a Windows
Media player.

Comment 2

[Brett Patterson]

So I searched on this topic for a while.  I have found out that if you uninstall
the Nemo Codec Pack the streaming media works again as well.  So the crashing
seemed to be a problem with Nemo and Windows Media Player 10.  I have not had
problems streaming media since then.  Works great now.

If you have Nemo, try uninstalling it, it worked for me.

~Brett