Why can I embed the WMP6 Win32 plug-in within Netscape Navigator 6?
WM Player 9 Series adds a new plug-in that works with Netscape 6. Use that instead, since Netscape dropped their older architecture here. If you’re not using WM Player 9 Series: Because Nav 6 is buggy and not backwards compatible with LiveConnect-supporting scriptable plug-ins, as documented here in the Netscape docs, and this Mozilla bug among a bunch of others. Please note: WMP7.1 (latest release) includes an updated Netscape plug-in which works around some of their bugs. The plug-in will still not be scriptable, but it will be embeddable. Windows Media Player for Windows XP also includes this updated plug-in. Going to WMP’s Tools:Options:Formats dialog and reselecting “Windows Media file” and clicking “Apply” will reinstall the plug-in to Netscape for you. Also, REALLY note that Netscape 7.1 works hard to be compatible with WMP, so if you want to use WMP and Netscape together, use Netscape 7.1.
WM Player 9 Series adds a new plug-in that works with Netscape 6. If you’re not using WM Player 9 Series: Because Nav 6 is buggy and not backwards compatible with LiveConnect-supporting scriptable plug-ins, as documented here in the Netscape docs, and this Mozilla bug among a bunch of others. Please note: WMP7.1 (latest release) includes an updated Netscape plug-in which works around some of their bugs. The plug-in will still not be scriptable, but it will be embeddable. Windows Media Player for Windows XP also includes this updated plug-in. Going to WMP’s Tools:Options:Formats dialog and reselecting “Windows Media file” and clicking “Apply” will reinstall the plug-in to Netscape for you. Also, REALLY note that Netscape 7.1 works hard to be compatible with WMP, so if you want to use WMP and Netscape together, use Netscape 7.1.
