Comments on: Installing Windows Media Player Plugin for Firefox

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:51:51 +0000

Having problem downloading flash player. It keeps saying to turn off firefox. What is the best or right way to fix the problem.

Thanks

By: joopbraak

joopbraak — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:19:00 +0000

@Lars
“Where oh where is the plug-in for Windows 2000?”

Just unpack the executable with Universal Extractor (twice, first the exe and then the msi) and then place np-mswmp.dll in the Firefox plugin directory. Or just grab it from a Windows PC where it’s already installed.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:42:45 +0000

I downloaded the plug in for Vista but my Windows Media Player still does not work. It does not appear in the list when I type about:plugins……In the process, I clicked repair and hit enter and agreed to the install. What am I doing wrong? Is running it the same as installing it? I thought I did it ok….Thanks for helping!!

By: Lars

Lars — Sat, 02 May 2009 10:03:57 +0000

Where oh where is the plug-in for Windows 2000?

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:13:10 +0000

Firefox still shuts down as soon as i click a link on media player to listen to songs on internet

By: JP Mays

JP Mays — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:42:11 +0000

Apparently they (presumably Microsoft) have corrected the default installation issue. I have Firefox installed in ‘D:\Program Files\Mozilla\Firefox’ and after checking the plug-ins folder I noticed that the DLL file mentioned above had been installed into my default Firefox folder, which isn’t on the C: drive

By: Ruth

Ruth — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:57:49 +0000

Great stuff-it wasn’t until I came across this site that I decided to keep Firefox on my PC as I was having so many problems with downloads but your site makes it so easy….. XXX

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:01:44 +0000

I couldn’t find any information about the bizarre error that I am encountering with this plugin. When trying to run wmpfirefoxplugin.exe which is downloaded from the site linked to by this page, I get a dialog box titled “Windows Installer”

This dialog box is that one that you might see when trying to install a language pack and being prompted for the Windows CD. Except, it’s prompting me for the “Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin” disk. Crazy, huh? Turns out it is looking for ffplugin.msi.

By: HackerBob

HackerBob — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:23:41 +0000

Under Ubuntu Linux 8.0.4, I found that Firefox already has all the plug-ins installed to run anything and everything (except Flash).

If you try to run a file in Windows Media Player format, Ubuntu/FF will either–
(1) run with no action required on your part
–or–
(2) prompt you to install “codecs”… just click the OK button and the required codecs are automatically installed. Next thing you know, WMP is playing away.

To get Flash, I just started up Synaptic Package Manager, clicked on it, and it was installed automatically.

Kind of bizarre but it’s gotten easier to install required code to run Windows-format multimedia files under Ubuntu Linux than under Windows OS !

By: Tadd

Tadd — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:19:39 +0000

I can view my windows media player but not in FF. I have installed the plug ins as stated but its still not displaying in FF. plybe it my coding thats wrong. Can someone give me a code that correctly displays this Windows media player in both IE and FF. I m using IE7 and FF 2.0.0.12