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not sure if this is the right board, but here goes
does anyone else using firefox have this problem? whenever a sound from the websight tries to play, my quick time add on crashes
anyone know how I can go about fixing this?
thanks
the only thing I can say for you to do to fix this problem is go back to an older version of firefox, and when I say old, we are talking like firfox 3.6 or anywhere in the ff3 series. even if you have the latest version of firefox and you update your quicktime plug-in or whatever that wont work. i've tried that years ago when I had a netbook that was working to see if that would fix it and didn't. or you may have to go and buy quicktime pro or something. either that or you will have to use i e.
This question comes up so offten I wonder why Mozilla doesn't either fix it, or say it doesn't work.
huh, okay thanks guys I'll just use IE for zoning then
I had been having this same problem, and the only thing that managed to work, was for me to install and use VLC Media Player. I'm using Windows XP, and I have the latest version of Firefox. I personally use VLC Media Player as my default media player since it was said that it plays most media files, but I don't think you would have to do that if you didn't want to. But I let the installation include the plug-ins for IE, Firefox and whatever other browsers, and I don't think I even had to install QuickTime or Real Player. I didn't know if it would work, but I already had VLC on my laptop, so I started reading about it to see if I wanted to keep or remove it. And it turned out to sound good, and that it actually works, so I'm happy for that.
VLC Media Player is free, so if y'all want to look into that, it's at
https://videolan.org/vlc/
Hope this helps.
VLC, I've heard some good things about that one
as long as it doesn't randomly take over random downloads like some players do I might go get it later
well, I know plenty about that for the mac but nothing about it on windows. if you use NVDA like I do you may as well forget about it. aint accessible to me last time I tried.
I use NVDA myself, as my primary screenreader and had no trouble uninstalling and then reinstalling VLC. I can also play audio files with it and adjust the volume and rewind/fastforward what I'm playing. I also figured out how to cycle thru files I think had been added to the library, but VLC does give a little trouble when you delete a file and then want to cycle thru the files; a dialog would come up when you got to a space where a deleted file would've been, and you have to press "OK" to close it (which NVDA read as well as the dialog message). Aside from playing media files, I don't do much else with it though, so I can't say personally how accessible it is in whatever else one can do with VLC.
Hi.
I think the easier thing for the user but a bit of work for the developpers would be to make all the sounds flash bassed so they would work with all browsers with no problems.
I am using firefox as well and i don't hear the sounds.
I will try the vlc plugin.