Windows Plug-in for Firefox 2.0

I seem to be missing a video plug in for firefox, as whenever I go to pages such as this, I get a message saying that additional plug-ins are required to view all the media on this page. So I "click here to install the plug-in" and it says that no suitable plug-ins were found, and the following information:"Unknown Plugin (application/x-mplayer2)" and a button for a manual install, which takes me to the Windows Media Player downlaod page. I have reinstalled Windows Media Player, but it doesn't help.

Is it because I upgraded to WMP11? And should I just go back to WMP10?

 

You can't play WMP files in Firefox. I think it's something to do with the licensing in WMP. View it in IE.

 

Runs fine in Firefox 2 over here.

 

It didn't work when I reverted either. How did you do it then r4tch3t?

 

nothing, I must already have the plugin..??

 

I've had this problems loads of times. What tends to work is to completly uninstall firefox (100% remove), then install Firefox 1. THEN update it.

It has worked for me before. You can view Windows Media in Firefox, it's just its very problematic for some reason.

EDIT: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=206213

 

I stand corrected. Thank you.

 

Works just fine for me and I did a clean install of FF2. Check about: plugins to see if WMP is listed.

See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=206213

 

Thanks for the link MrWillyWonka. Those steps worked. Turns out I didn't have the plugin files in the firefox directory, OR my windows media player directory, so I had to copy them from my laptop. All works fine now though.

 

Works fine in FF2 and WMP10 here..