Monday, November 26, 2007

Windows Media Player in Firefox

The general trend in web-based video is to have the video play in a Flash player (you probably already have Flash installed so that it plays in your web browser). Flash is just a programming language. If you can see the video I have posted below, you are viewing it in Flash.

However, some sites display videos in Windows Media Player format. If you use Firefox (as I know many of you do), and you have trouble viewing Windows Media videos, you may just need to install the Windows Media Firefox plug-in. This is very simple to do. Just open Firefox, then download the plug-in from here. When you see the "Install" button, click it. You will probably have to restart Firefox.

Now you are ready to view Windows Media videos from Firefox.

This week's video is a compilation of various people having a really bad day at the office: