Problem with recent Quicktime upgrade

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Turlog
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Problem with recent Quicktime upgrade

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This evening I downloaded the Quicktime 7.2 upgrade for Mac that was posted today, and now I can't get any video to play in Firefox. I see the Quicktime logo briefly and then a white question mark is superimposed over it. I checked to see if video was working in Safari and it is, so it must be a Firefox issue. Is anyone else having this problem and what's the solution?

Thanks,

Bob
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Turlog
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Post by Turlog »

I tried everything that was suggested in your link and nothing worked. Under the Browser tab in Quicktime prefs there is no "Mime settings" button, so I couldn't try that suggestion. The only check boxes under the Browser tab are "Play movies automatically" and "Save movies in disk cache". I unchecked "Play movies automatically" and it didn't make a difference.

I then removed the "pluginreg.dat" file and restarted Firefox and that didn't fix the problem either.

Thanks for your suggestion.
johnnymike
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Quicktime problems

Post by johnnymike »

The settings in the Quicktime System Pref pane is different in the later OSX upgrades. In the pane, select the Advanced Tab. You will find a MIME settings button, click this. Open up each one of the settings. Two of them (Images, and Miscellaneous) have a selection for Flash. Deselect those two. After I did this and restarted Firefox, the problem went away.
Turlog
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Post by Turlog »

Thanks for the reply. I was given this same solution in the Quicktime discussion on Apple's website, and it worked.

Bob
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Post by jstoneburner »

In my case, these items were already unchecked. Still no joy.

My message is down in this thread: Firefox 2.0.0.4 on MAC stops viewing QT objects on Webpages - MozillaZine Forums
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Post by jstoneburner »

Reinstalling QT 7.2 worked.

That was the one thing I didn't want to do, because last time it caused half my apps (Rosetta ones) to fail on my Intel Mac. I had to reinstall 10.4.10 to get things to work again. Either Apple fixed the recent download, or by some more complex mechanism I managed to avoid the pitfall.

Anyway, to those that find this thread, don't be afraid to try it again, if none of the various suggestions solve it for you....
Guest
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Yes, it working now!

Post by Guest »

Thank "johnymike"

I did not know on where to find the right answer.
firefox noob
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thank you

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this worked, thanks
johau
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Many thanks to johnnymike

Post by johau »

I've been plagued with the QuickTime Question Mark issue for months now and I've been going over to using Safari when that happened but I prefer staying on Firefox. Your Quick Fix for Quick Time repaired the issue and I can now view websites the way they were meant to be. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

A formerly somewhat frustrated browser in Maine...
cheetahboy
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Post by cheetahboy »

Thank you so much! It works!!!!!!
peteru
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Post by peteru »

I had problems with quicktime, the big Q with ?. I seemed to have solved it by uninstsalling Adobe flash 9, and then reinstalling it. Everything worked, then I upgraded Firefox, and all the same problems as before, and I uninstalled, and reinstalled Flash9, and everything works again.
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