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: September 16, 2008 at 12:44AM  

    Hello,

    I am using Vista Ultimate on a 64 bit operating system.  I'm trying to find a a WMP 11 plug in for Firefox 3.  Does this exist yet?

    I can be reached at JJDJ@yahoo.com

    JD

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  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