How To Install Windows Media Player Plugin For Firefox

So you lot just bought a preparation video and popped it into your computer. You click on the menu in the autoplay dialog and information technology opens upwards Firefox, your default browser. Now yous are staring at a bare screen. What now?

The problem is most probable considering you don't accept the Windows Media Player plugin installed for Firefox, so all we need to do is install information technology.

Annotation that yous'll ordinarily accept the same problem anytime y'all try and view video files in FIrefox using Windows Media format, such as .wmv files.

Installation

Just download and run the plugin installer linked beneath. Yous'll probably want to shut Firefox during the installation.

Verifying Plugin Installation

After running through the very quick installation magician, yous might be curious if the installation actually worked. While the easiest method is to just open a Windows Media video, you can also blazon the following into the address bar to run into the list of loaded plugins:

about:plugins

And y'all should come across the Windows Media Player plugin in the list. You can also see which file types Firefox volition apply the plugin on.

And now I tin can view this Windows Media format video file in Firefox…

Technical Notes

In case you take any problems with this installer, you might want to have a expect at this list to help with your troubleshooting:

The WMP plugin uses the IE Proxy settings, non the ones in Firefox. This is considering the plugin itself is only a thin wrapper around Windows Media Actor, which always uses IE internally to fetch information.
The plugin files are installed to the "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins" directory by default, and the file name is np-mswmp.dll. If the uninstaller fails to remove this file for whatever reason you tin can manually delete it.
You could also theoretically copy the same .dll file into the plugins directory on any Firefox installation and it should piece of work without running the installer.