Can't play Flash media at YouTube with my TERRIFIC new Firefox browser Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 11:20 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (3929 messages posted) Kit wrote: |I've installed Firefox, AND IT ROCKS! [...] | Yup. The infection-prone thing that M$ slopped together[1] last century can't hold a candle to 21st-Century browsers. Even IE7 (which M$ purposely crippled for Win9x) is pretty crappy WRT standards. The European Union's lawsuit against Micros~1 may finally force them (for the first time) to a state of quasi-compliance with W3C standards in IE8. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://microsoft.com |I do have one teeny problem, tho [...]Youtube | First, recognize that this is a Windows 98 forum and that things that don't install from the Windows CD are really off-topic here. That said, replacing IE solves about 93% of all Windoze-related problems, so we'll let it slide this one time. If you're going to continue to use a Mozilla product, however, you should get cozy with a corresponding Mozilla Usenet group and/or forum. Now, recognize that a Web browser is a tool for rendering HTML. *.FLV / *.SWF are NOT part of the HTML specification.[2] cache of http://filext.com/file-extension/FLV To get those kind of unsupported things to play "inside" your Web browser, you need 1) the proper "Helper Application" (Shockwave/Flash) 2) a plug-in that corresponds to the browser and that app. cache of http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows-all.html#Flash [1] Actually, M$ got rights to it from Spyglass Inc., screwed that company financially, then took over their browser and renamed it before turning it into an even bigger steaming pile of insecurity. [2] There is a new {video} tag in HTML5 that would make all of this moot, but if M$ doesn't support it in IE8, it will be stillborn. IE is currently losing ~2% of the browser market per year, but it's still got 88% by some counts. Written in response to: re: Firefox - TERRIFIC! But One Little Problem (Follow-Up) (Kit: Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 8:23 pm) Responses to this message: Follow Up: Firefox Problem Solved Without Linux! Was My question Off-Topic? (Kit: Friday, February 20, 2009 at 2:43 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Which Firefox for Installing on 98SE? (Kit: Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 2:48 pm) re: Which Firefox for Installing on 98SE? (Steve: Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 3:04 pm) re: Which Firefox for Installing on 98SE? (Kit: Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 3:21 pm) re: Which Firefox for Installing on 98SE? (Steve: Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 3:45 pm) re: Which Firefox for Installing on 98SE? (gewg_: Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 5:57 pm) re: Firefox - TERRIFIC! But One Little Problem (Follow-Up) (Kit: Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 8:23 pm) Can't play Flash media at YouTube with my TERRIFIC new Firefox browser (gewg_: Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 11:20 pm) Follow Up: Firefox Problem Solved Without Linux! Was My question Off-Topic? (Kit: Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 2:43 pm) re: Follow Up: Firefox Problem Solved Without Linux! Was My question Off-Topic? (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 5:00 pm) re: Follow Up: Firefox Problem Solved Without Linux! Was My question Off-Topic? (gewg_: Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 5:43 pm) re: Follow Up: Firefox Problem Solved Without Linux! Was My question Off-Topic? (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 7:27 pm) re: Follow Up: Firefox Problem Solved Without Linux! Was My question Off-Topic? (gewg_: Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 7:42 pm) re: Follow Up: Firefox Problem Solved Without Linux! Was My question Off-Topic? (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 9:12 pm) re: Follow Up: Firefox Problem Solved Without Linux! Was My question Off-Topic? (Steve: Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 5:46 pm) re: Thanks to All for Topic Clarification (Kit: Sun, Mar 8, 2009, 8:41 am) re: Which Firefox for Installing on 98SE? (runsan: Sun, Mar 1, 2009, 4:36 pm) As usual, "runsan" has no clue. (gewg_: Mon, Mar 2, 2009, 5:24 pm) re: As usual, "runsan" has no clue. (runsan: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 1:16 pm) re: As usual, "runsan" has no clue. (gewg_: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 5:11 pm) re: As usual, "runsan" has no clue. (runsan: Sun, Jun 28, 2009, 5:33 pm) re: As usual, "runsan" has no clue (especially WRT Internet Exploder) (gewg_: Mon, Jun 29, 2009, 11:27 am) re: As usual, "runsan" has no clue (especially WRT Internet Exploder) (runsan: Wed, Jul 1, 2009, 1:21 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum