It’s amazing things change since the days of FF2 only a few months back. Previously I tried online methods of making quicktime, wmp player plugins work in FF2, but all the hacks and ini changes failed. The only ‘media’ playable was Flash. So IE was my official media/radio browser. Mind you my FF is portable (not installed), and I didn’t use the real QT. VLC plugin wouldn’t run either, and the best FF playback was to sift for links on a page, and open it with an assigned external player.

Now after some revisions to FF3, I decided not to waste time fixing media issues, but needed to update all my codecs for video work. So I installed the latest K-Lite codec pack, QT alternative, Real alternative. Then I noticed an odd side effect: for the first time, I saw wmp and QT all playing in FF3, with radio stations retrieving license and playing smoothly!

QT alternative still has the invisible playback controls, but the settings button and volume ctrl work this time if you know where to click. Otherwise, Wow it’s perfect!