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 :)


Comments

  1. Posted on: April 19, 2007 at 4:20PM  

    Hi Nick,

    I too have installed this plug-in on my Vista Enterprise X64 box with the latest FireFox version 2.0.0.3.  And I am having the same problem other users have mentioned.  I have looked through the FireFox addons and cannot see it installed.  I have uninstalled, reinstalled, repaired with no avail.  Please let me know if you need further information from me to get this addon working.  Thanks!

  2. Posted on: April 20, 2007 at 7:14PM  

    Hey qannaboss:  Assuming you're running the 32-bit version of FF, could you check to see if the plugin ended up at 'drive':\PFiles\Plugins, where 'drive' is a drive letter?  Thanks.

  3. Posted on: April 21, 2007 at 11:11AM  

    Hi Nick, it used the regular downloaded executable from the link you posted to install the plugin. Firefox was a fresh install of its latest version, also installed the regular way with its installer.

  4. Posted on: April 25, 2007 at 10:49PM  

    How come this doesn't show how much of a progressive download has finished in the progress bar? (like youtube or quicktime)

    Either WMP 9 or 10 did.

  5. Posted on: April 27, 2007 at 5:11PM  

    This download doesnt work for me... most likely because i have vista x32. Using 2.0.0.3 firefox, it asks if i want to install missing plugins, butcomes up with ''no suitable plugins found. Unknown plugin (video/x-msvideo) can anyone help me with this??.

    if so, please email me @ jsdcontrol@gmail.com or mopped5@hotmail.com

  6. Posted on: May 11, 2007 at 3:43PM  

    nick, will this work only in vista?  how about XP?

  7. Posted on: May 15, 2007 at 12:21PM  

    Hey gluzd:  the plug-in works on both Windows Vista and Windows XP.

  8. Posted on: May 18, 2007 at 4:44PM  

    I get this error

    The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed.  This occurs if you are running Windows in Safe Mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed.  Contact your support personnel for assistance.

    any ideas?

  9. Posted on: May 23, 2007 at 9:05AM  

    Firefox constantly crashes with the new plugin when you set the "Windowless"-Attribute to "true". Is there a solution for this? Setting the attribute to false is no option because I want to put layers in front of the video.

  10. Posted on: June 02, 2007 at 12:34PM  

    Hey gluzd:  the plug-in works on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows XP as well.

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