Windows Media Plugin
Posted by:
Baffled
Date: January 10, 2006 05:37PM
My about:plugins lists Windows Media Plugin as enabled but when a WM is selected the new window says the player is missing. I reinstalled the plugin to no avail. Any suggestions please?
Re: Windows Media Plugin
Posted by:
guenter
Date: January 10, 2006 05:48PM
goto tools/privacy/active x support set check and restart browser -
that should do it.
do not foregt to stop loader if You use it.
if not You found a bug or Your system has a problem - feedback apreciated.
p. s. some ppl here advocated that You must switch this on intentionally.
else they fear that ppl may complain about security....
i fear we get a FAQ
Re: Windows Media Plugin
Posted by:
Baffled
Date: January 10, 2006 07:12PM
That fix plus reinstalling Flash got CNN up and running. Thanks.
Other than unexpectedly quitting a couple times I am liking this browser. It renders pages that Opera has problems with very well and seems to be a little faster. I won't even bother to compare it with the now very slow (at least for me) Firefox 1.5. The only thing I really miss is the ability to remember the sessions when exiting.
Good job.
Re: Windows Media Plugin
Posted by:
bst82551
Date: January 10, 2006 07:24PM
There is a sessions plugin available for the newer test versions based on SeaMonkey. You could try using one of those... my personal favorite is K-MeleonCCF 0.04 which you can find here:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?f=1&i=34225&t=34225
It's faster than the K-Meleon builds based on the 1.7.x GRE (Fred's builds, Brian Bruns' update, official builds) because it uses the 1.8.x GRE which is a bit faster. The SeaMonkey builds use actual tabs instead of layers. The difference between tabs and layers should be somewhat apparent after a week or so of using the tabbed version.
Give a try, but make sure not to install it over your existing K-Meleon installation.
If you don't like this one, just uninstall it and start using your old one again.
Brian
Re: Windows Media Plugin
Posted by:
Fred
Date: January 10, 2006 07:32PM
The 0.9.12 version can also recall the last session.
Look in the menu View-->Home-->Open last session or
-->start with last session.
Fred
Re: Windows Media Plugin
Posted by:
guenter
Date: January 10, 2006 07:34PM
about remeber session when exiting:
maybe look a little closer at:
- Groups/... (play a little with the macros there)...
- and File/open last session....
about fast: This 0.9.12 is the update of our all and every day work horse -
maybe look inside the posts by Hao and Dorian for a fast k-m in development.
greetings
p. s.
it renders pages as good or bad as Firefox.
It should not quit unexpected....
.
Re: Windows Media Plugin
Posted by:
Terry
Date: January 12, 2006 04:17PM
@guenter - aren't there two additional .dll files - npdefpluginpro and npmozax that need to be put into the plugin directory to enable the selection of Windows Media Player, for example in CNN?
Re: Windows Media Plugin
Posted by:
Fred
Date: January 12, 2006 06:00PM
Only npmozax.dll should be necessary.
After installation its name is _npmozax.dll, when you enable
it in Tools-->Privacy-->Permissions-->Active X Support,
it is renamed to npmozax.dll .
Some javascript files have also to be present.
Fred
Re: Windows Media Plugin
Posted by:
Terry
Date: January 12, 2006 08:40PM
Fred, thanks for clearing that up.
Re: Windows Media Plugin
Posted by:
guenter
Date: January 12, 2006 08:42PM
@Terry,
npdefpluginpro will be found at
http://pobox.com/~jason1/defaultpluginpro/
It is an improved npnul32.dll - the plugin indicates when a plugin is missing.
Media player will play if installed on Your pc.
Fred placed:
activex.js in defaults/pref /
msvcp60.dll & msvcrt.dll where k-m exe is
npmozax.dll in plugins
nsAxSecurityPolicy.js & nsIMozAxPlugin.xpt in components
(Fred did also delete xpti.dat and compreg.dat to force k-m to write them new which registers the 2 files).
p. s. versions seem GRE taylored - ppl with k-m for SM try to get it going here:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?f=1&i=34973&t=34973
Re: Windows Media Plugin
Posted by:
Drahken
Date: January 12, 2006 08:49PM
npdefpluginpro Is a replacement for the npnull.dll plugin. Both of these plugins are "default" plugins, that means that they activate when the browser needs a plugin but doesn't have the right one. (You know when you go to a site that requires a new plugin and you get that little thing with the netscape logo and it says "click here for the plugin" or some such? That's npnull.dl at work. If you've deleted that crappy plugin and installed npdefpluginpro instead, then you get a colored box which you can right click to get the plugin, or to save the file, or view the file directly, etc.)
These have no effect at all on any other plugins.