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I've upgraded to firefox 4/snow leopard and now my .avi's won't play using the quicktime plugin. What am I doing wrong?

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I'm unable to play .avi's in Firefox 4 that worked fine in Firefox 3. I just get a blank page. I've also upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard (prior to upgrading Firefox) since the last time I viewed them.

I'm serving these files from my local harddrive so the url starts with file::

I believe these were displayed using the quicktime plugin. Firefox reports my current quicktime plugin as version 7.6.6

I need to get this working because I'm giving a talk soon, and I've been using references in my talk pdf to link to the movies.

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Just checked, and my movies play fine in Safari. Crud. I'd rather not have to switch to Safari as my default browser. Yuk.

I'm unable to play .avi's in Firefox 4 that worked fine in Firefox 3. I just get a blank page. I've also upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard (prior to upgrading Firefox) since the last time I viewed them. I'm serving these files from my local harddrive so the url starts with file:: I believe these were displayed using the quicktime plugin. Firefox reports my current quicktime plugin as version 7.6.6 I need to get this working because I'm giving a talk soon, and I've been using references in my talk pdf to link to the movies. ====== Just checked, and my movies play fine in Safari. Crud. I'd rather not have to switch to Safari as my default browser. Yuk.

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Update: Turns out this is only a problem when the .avi is stored locally and served locally. I uploaded the file to a server and then pointed Firefox there. In that case it displays just fine. Weird.