[SpamCop-List] Re: [Media] Anony Mouse in the news...

[Bo Briggs]

Blammo wrote:

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>>I don't use IE either. Mozilla 1.6. It came right up for me. Looked at
>>about:plugins and it shows 'Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link 
>>Library', with a filename of npdsplay.dll. Don't know how I got it,
>>because I never downloaded it. Of course I do the windows update
>>thing, so maybe it detects Mozilla and puts a plugin in there for me.
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> npdsplay.dll came with WMP 7 and 8 (I think).
> Mozilla searches for plug-ins when you install it. And then you need a reg 
> entry as well because of some media Player bug, the version6 player will 
> try to load in Mozilla. One of the Windows installers fixes the reg, not 
> sure if it's WMP or Moz.
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Kinda weird. You say that npdsplay.dll comes with WMP, a MS product. Why would 
it be supplied? Well, I can only guess, MS wants you to use the MP. Remember 
the browser wars when Netscape had >67% market share? Then again, maybe 
Mozilla supplies the plug (which I suspect). I've never had any problem using 
it. But I've never tried to change the default media player on my box. If I 
can see the stuff, I don't care whose I use.

Anyway, here's a link to some tests for plugins for Mozilla:
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-end/testcases/plugins/

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Bo Briggs