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Re: Quicktime problem

Subject: Re: Quicktime problem
From: "Suzanne Williams" scw1217
Date: Sun May 6, 2007 5:43 am ((PDT))
I had problems with Quicktime in Firefox a while back. I discovered 
that the Adblock Plus add-on was creating the problem.

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Suzanne
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA



--- In  "Robin Carter" <> 
wrote:
>
> This might be slightly off-topic, but I have not been able to find 
an answer
> elsewhere and I think that at least some Nature Recordists have 
dealt with
> this problem.
> 
> I have been using Quicktime as an audio player in conjunction with 
Firefox
> and Windows XP for surfing the net. Up until recently this has 
worked just
> fine, but with the current version of Quicktime (version 7.1.5.120) 
only
> about 3 seconds of an MP3 download play and no more. This is very 
annoying.
> I have tried to change the file associations so that the Windows 
Media
> Player plays my MP3 downloads, but Quicktime still grabs the stage. 
I can
> only hear the very beginning of some of the fascinating natural 
sound files
> that has been posted to the Internet by Nature Recordists group 
members.
> 
> My last resort will be to uninstall Quicktime. That will kill it 
for sure,
> but I am hoping that there is a less drastic solution.
> 
> It never ceases to amaze me how software developers can take a 
perfectly
> functional piece of software (like any of the old versions of 
Quicktime) and
> "improve" it into something that no longer works. This happens a 
lot,
> unfortunately.
> 
> Grump, grump, grump.
> 
> Robin Carter
> Columbia, SC USA
> 
>  
> 
> 
>






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