firefox and quicktime

SooTyLaD · 26 Sep 2007 at 14:58

when viewing quicktime movies through firefox, i get the following error:

QuickTime Plug-in 7.2

The plug-in performed an illegal operation. You are strongly advised to restart Firefox.

both quicktime and firefox are latest versions, and i've tried disabling the plugings (only got three of em anyway), but still no luck... the quicktime i use is the one that gets installed with iTunes, not that that makes a difference...

works flawlessly with IE7, but that aint much good to me

anyone else experienced this and know how to fix it? or just anyone who could shed light on the matter?

if it wasn't for the fact that i like iTunes for my iPod stuff i'd switch to quicktime alternative like i did with real player but wanna get the proper versions working really...

any advice?

Alex UK · 26 Sep 2007 at 15:19

I had this problem a while ago, solved it by turning off Firefox AdBlock.

SooTyLaD · 26 Sep 2007 at 15:46

i'm sure i'm being stupid here, but i cant find a single mention of "AdBlock" in my firefox app... is it the "block popup windows" option?

(if you're refering to a plug-in called adblock, i dont have it, so it can't be that)

just tried using the ietab plugin to make the page use the IE engine, still crashes but no error this time just illegal operation

Alex UK · 26 Sep 2007 at 15:54

QuiKsiLVeR said:
i'm sure i'm being stupid here, but i cant find a single mention of "AdBlock" in my firefox app... is it the "block popup windows" option?

I'm not sure mate. I'm not at home and so not using Firefox, but I think if you click on 'Tools' then 'Options' there might be something in there? Can anyone else help out?

marc2003 · 26 Sep 2007 at 15:56

adblock is a 3rd party extension, that's probably why you can't find it.

SooTyLaD · 26 Sep 2007 at 15:59

well, that would make sense

- anyone have any other suggestions? pain in the arse having to go to IE every time a page has QT

Alex UK · 26 Sep 2007 at 16:01

marc2003 said:
adblock is a 3rd party extension, that's probably why you can't find it.

I thought AdBlock Plus was an extension?

marc2003 · 26 Sep 2007 at 16:09

Alex UK said:
I thought AdBlock Plus was an extension?

there are 2 extensions. adblock and the superior adblock plus.

james.miller · 26 Sep 2007 at 16:11

i had this a few times earlier. its only happened with the latest build of firefox, so i suspext there will hopefully be an update to either FF or quicktime to sort it

tolien · 26 Sep 2007 at 20:59

2.0.0.7 had a fix for a security issue with Quicktime, so it's possible they're connected.
Tried removing and reinstalling Quicktime?

SooTyLaD · 26 Sep 2007 at 22:13

tolien said:
2.0.0.7 had a fix for a security issue with Quicktime, so it's possible they're connected.
Tried removing and reinstalling Quicktime?

yeah, no luck

tolien · 26 Sep 2007 at 23:05

QuiKsiLVeR said:
yeah, no luck

When you uninstalled, was the QT plugin actually gone - if you go to about: plugins in Fx, there shouldn't be any entry for Quicktime, and there shouldn't be any files starting npqtplugin in the plugins folder under wherever you've installed Firefox.

mrk · 26 Sep 2007 at 23:28

Don't install Quicktime. Uninstall it.

I had the issue with Quicktime and Quicktime Alternative. The issue was effective on both XP and Vista and on IE as well as Firefox. The same error as you are getting.

However, I fixed the problem immediately by installing "QT Lite"

If you intend on playing H264 HD videos off quicktime site locally then donwload the CoreAAC decoder too so that WMP etc can decode the AAC audio stream nicely.