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Mac 10.6.3 Microsoft Sliverlight problem

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mgman71
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I am running Mac 10.6.3 and have a problem. when I try to play a video it says you need Sliverlight plug in so I install Sliverlight (it said it was successful install) . I tried t run the video again and it says to install the plug in?? any ideas. I have tried Mac Safari and the video plays with no problem just will not work with Firefox.

I am running Mac 10.6.3 and have a problem. when I try to play a video it says you need Sliverlight plug in so I install Sliverlight (it said it was successful install) . I tried t run the video again and it says to install the plug in?? any ideas. I have tried Mac Safari and the video plays with no problem just will not work with Firefox.

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Please do the following:

Type about:addons into your address bar, press Enter

Then go to plugins, and enable Silverlight, restart Firefox.

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user633449
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Please do the following:

Type about:addons into your address bar, press Enter

Then go to plugins, and enable Silverlight, restart Firefox.

cor-el
cor-el
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You can try to run Firefox temporarily in 32 bit mode to see if that works.

You can use these steps to start Firefox in 32 bit mode:

  1. Close Firefox
  2. Start the Finder and open the Applications folder
  3. Right click or control-click the Firefox.app icon
  4. Select "Get Info"
  5. Select or Deselect "Open in 32-bit mode"
  6. Close the "Firefox Info" window # Restart Firefox
mgman71
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Thanks that fixed it. Not sure how I missed that????