No QuickTime videos with Firefox & Win98
* * Chas
since 1999. Several years ago I had to update IE from 5.5 to 6 to access
some online services that I use.
IE 5.5 worked perfect for years. IE6 had a bunch of annoying little
glitches such as printing problems so I installed Firefox and it's worked
great for several years.
After one of the frequent Firefox updates I now get a QuickTime broken
link icon for most videos in Firefox: YouTube for example plus the startup
and instructional videos in many web sites. I'm running Firefox 3.0.0.11.
I've reinstalled QuickTime and all of the Adobe Flash & Shockwave updates
still no joy.
QuickTime and Flash videos work fine in IE6.
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* * Chas
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I found a number of postings on the web by people having the same problem
as me. There were a few suggestions but no cures.
I had read on a Mozilla site that after 2006 they were no longer going to
support Win98/ME.
After trying to print some info from a web page in IE 6.0 I went to the
site with Firefox 2.0.011 and got the QuickTime broken link icons again. I
looked at the properties and saw that it was a Flash animation that wasn't
loading so I went to the Adobe Flash DL site and got the latest version of
Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and installed it. It was just released at the
beginning of this month.
Voilà - it fixed the problem.
For some reason Flash didn't get updated in IE 6.0 but I was able to
install the update with FF.
I do a lot of technical research on the web and a lot of websites are
including animated graphics and/or videos in their information. Here's the
site I was having problems with in FF:
Chas.