Got an issue or two with the latest issue of Firefox...

One site I habitually visit has multimedia available through javascript pop-up links. It's not to a third party site, but his own. I get all the graphic pop-ups just fine; however, if it's a video like .wmv, it won't play at all.

So, I went to Bizarro Druge to check out some of the videos there. Whoa. Same deal. I get everything on the page like I used to except that where the video should be, I have absolutely nothing, no broken link icon or a notice that I need to download a plug-in. Double checked under the downloads options to make sure that I've got the plug-in and yes, I do. It was set on default (which was MP9) so I changed it to use the MP9 application specifically. No dice. Then I change it to download instead of attempting to play. Again, nothing.

It's not only these two sites. I've tried a couple other sites that utilize the .wmv extensions and it seems like Firefox doesn't even notice they are there.

I thought well, hey, at least I've still got IE6, right? Wrong. Started it up and I'm continually getting a "Page cannot be displayed" error screen, no matter what site I'm on.

Does anyone have any ideas what the heck is going on?

Wait a minute.

Found the frickin' problem.

One of the extensions that you can use with Firefox is one called Adblock. I disabled it and now I'm able to play the .wmv files. I'm gonna drop them a note.

Sorry.

Rob

In case you haven't found this function yet, you can disable all pop-ups with the built in pop-up blocker, but you can allow popups by site. On PR you have to allow popups in both the reviews.pcapex.com and in some of the others that use pop-up picture boxes for magnification.

Yeah, I've been toying with firefox recently and found that I can't give out rep points unless I disable popup blocking on pimprig.

At the options and the web features screen, click add site then whatever site needs to be unblocked. I believe you can even do specific pages, so, for instance forums.pcapex.com/showthread.php. Not sure, I'll have to try

Yeah, I had already figured out the Web Features option and had already added pcapex.com and the other sites that I visit. It was the add-on extension that was blocking the .wmv on the first site I was talking about.

Still can't get the videos in Bizarro Drudge even with Adblock disabled. Gonna play with it some more...(the computer, I mean) to find out what I can find out.

Thanks,
Rob

Only problem i have with Firefox is that whenever i open PDF files, the browser tends to crash or freeze Any idea what is causing this?

Try turning off the browser shell ability so that the AcroReader app itself starts up for reading PDFs rather than within the browser. Inconvenient, but a workaround nonetheless.
I can't say that I have had this problem with Firefox though (maybe because I have the full version of Acrobat, I dunno) so other than that, I have no further suggestions.