You forget how many tweaks and changes you make to software as you use it. When you install software fresh, you’re rudely reminded.

My preferred browser is Mozilla’s Firefox. I love being able to open new sites in a tab rather than a new window. For the first few days on my new system, I used the pre-installed Internet Explorer for sake of convenience. After only a few days, I had to go get Firefox.

The installation went fine and I imported my old bookmarks from the laptop. I have to recreate my saved passwords lists, but that needed to be cleaned out anyhow. Everything was going well until I went to my family blog and tried to view a movie file. The file is Windows Media Player format. Firefox told me it was missing a plugin.

I went and searched the plugins list from the “manual install” link and could only find the full install of Media Player. The new machine came with version 10 pre-installed, so I knew installing it again wouldn’t solve my problem. After some research I found a guide on MozillaZine explaining how to embed Windows Media Player in Firefox. After following the instructions and installing the xpi file, the videos played great.

Tags: Internet