Windows Media Player on Firefox

Have you been itching to enjoy your media content on Firefox?  The Windows Media Player team put a lot of work into evolving media playback on Windows Vista through the new Media Foundation pipeline, and has also been actively monitoring feedback on WMP and playback in general.  While commentary has been mainly positive for Web playback through IE, we've noticed that there's still work to be done to make Firefox users able to enjoy their media content on Windows.

We couldn't respond as quickly as we would have liked to (we had to get Windows Vista out the door!), but now that it's shipped, the team has moved its attention to getting Firefox users up and running.  This week we are happy to say that we have a new plug-in for Firefox that makes WMP work once again -- and even better than it did before!

It's easy to get the new Firefox plug-in -- if you navigate to a Web page today that has the embedded WMP ActiveX control, Firefox will automatically grab the new plug-in for you to install and you will once again be able to enjoy your media content :)

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  1. Islander
    Posted on: April 16, 2007 at 7:36PM  

    Might need some more testing, because it doesn't work on my machine. Using Vista Ultimate x64 and Firefox 2.0.0.3, and trying to watch the videos on the newsportal www.n-tv.de keeps resulting in Firefox asking for the plugin again and again.

  2. UniverseJDJ
    Posted on: April 16, 2007 at 7:50PM  

    Seems to work fine on Vista x86 and Firefox 2.0.0.3 on the site posted by previous commenter.

  3. Nick White
    Posted on: April 16, 2007 at 8:11PM  

    Hey Islander:  Do you happen to be

    running 64-bit Firefox?  If so, then our 32-bit plug-in will not work.  Please let me know if this is not the case.

  4. historypro
    Posted on: April 16, 2007 at 9:08PM  

    I've been waiting for this a long time. Works great on 32-bit. I can listen to Amazon music samples again!

    Thanks

  5. Over1ord
    Posted on: April 17, 2007 at 1:57AM  

    Yey, thank you Microsoft!

    Finally i can enjoy WMP files in FireFox

  6. nielslbeck
    Posted on: April 17, 2007 at 2:16AM  

    What about Opera users? We would also like a plug-in :-)

  7. Islander
    Posted on: April 17, 2007 at 4:39AM  

    No 64bit version of Firefox here (is there any?). I already tried uninstalling and re-installing, installing as administrator (right mouse click and using that option), running Firefox as administrator, repairing option, restarting the computer before and after, but no changes. Also, when typing about:plugins in Firefox, nothing that looks like the WMP plugin shows up. And I tried other pages that require this plugin, and they don't work either.

  8. Taomyn
    Posted on: April 17, 2007 at 9:14AM  

    Typical, Microsoft releases a Firefox extension as an executable rather than the native XPI format all FF extensions are supposed to come in.

    This is Firefox not Internet Explorer!!! Get with the program!

    Oh, btw, thanks for hard work and effort, it is appreciated despite this little oversight.

  9. Nusi
    Posted on: April 17, 2007 at 9:19AM  

    The installer which you point to (and which might be installed when FF wants to install a plugin) doesn't work on Windows XP x64.

    The installer stops with following error message:

    "Package requires Windows XP SP2 or greater."

    XP x64 has SP2 builtin by default.

  10. cookiez
    Posted on: April 17, 2007 at 10:13AM  

    taomyn >> there is difference between an extension and a plugin.

    adblock is an extension and comes with xpi while adobe flash player is a plugin and comes with an exe just like this wmp plugin.

Trackbacks

  1. Posted by: かるあ のメモ on April 16, 2007 at 8:49PM

    Windows Media Player on Firefox(Windows Vista Team Blog)より Firefox 用 Windows Media Player のプラグイン が公開されています。

  2. Posted by: qbie.com on April 17, 2007 at 3:57PM

    Hey ho, Looks like microsoft Finally added support for WMP in Firefox. Now at least I can view .WMV files without having to fire up IE. Don't want to miss your daily dilbert fix? If you have Vista, download the Dilbert Sidebar Gadget. Works a treat!

  3. Posted by: DeveloperZen.com on April 17, 2007 at 5:26PM
  4. Posted by: Connected to Vista Bookmarks on April 17, 2007 at 9:16PM

    Great news for us Firefox users. (Yes, in addition to IE7, I use Firefox. I would be hard pressed to

  5. Posted by: 无识 on April 19, 2007 at 11:28PM

    看评论好像还有问题

  6. Posted by: ekampf 2.0 on April 22, 2007 at 1:13AM

    The Windows Media Player team announced a new plugin that enabled watching Windows Media Player content

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