Firefox 3 and RealPlayer

[Big Shed]

There is always a catch to "upgrades" isn't there.

Couple of days upgraded to Firefox 3, now I find my RealPlayer doesn't work with it.

Suppose I have to wait till RealPlayer catches up.

Funny thing is, I can't really see what has changed in Firefox!

[Groggy]

Funny thing is, I can't really see what has changed in Firefox!

Well, they managed to stop Real Player, that's a bonus

[Waldo]

Big Shed, have a look at VLC, I think it's PC compatible, it plays everything under the sun and would work with F/Fox 3.

[Big Shed]

Well, they managed to stop Real Player, that's a bonus

What's your problem with RealPlayer Greg?

Big Shed, have a look at VLC, I think it's PC compatible, it plays everything under the sun and would work with F/Fox 3.

Chris, I only use RealPlayer for downloading videos, eg YouTube stuff. When You play a video it pops up a box to allow you to download the video. I use other programs to actually play the videos. Does VLC do that?

[wheelinround]

Fred same thing here what I have been doing is copying URL into Realplayer and downloading that way

[Groggy]

I had a lot of nuisance stuff from RealPlayer in the early years and looked around for something to get rid of it. I have settled on VLC as Waldo also recommended; it just works and doesn't try to bury you with ads or other junk 'upgrades', or suggest you can buy the 'full version' twice a week. I avoid RP and Windows media player wherever I can now.

[Master Splinter]

If all you need Real for is downloading the videos, there are several plug-ins for Firefox that do this. I use DownloadHelper. Open the page with the video, click on the DownloadHelper icon, give the file a sensible name and away you go.

VLC works fine as a player, 98% of the time. For those damnable Flash (FLV) files, there's FLVPlayer.

[Big Shed]

I had a lot of nuisance stuff from RealPlayer in the early years and looked around for something to get rid of it. I have settled on VLC as Waldo also recommended; it just works and doesn't try to bury you with ads or other junk 'upgrades', or suggest you can buy the 'full version' twice a week. I avoid RP and Windows media player wherever I can now.

Greg, I haven't once received received ads or suggestion to buy the "full" version.

Must be something wrong with me, I feel deprived now

[Big Shed]

If all you need Real for is downloading the videos, there are several plug-ins for Firefox that do this. I use DownloadHelper. Open the page with the video, click on the DownloadHelper icon, give the file a sensible name and away you go.

VLC works fine as a player, 98% of the time. For those damnable Flash (FLV) files, there's FLVPlayer.

I had a look a the the DownloadHelper site, sounds interesting, especially the format converter feature.

[Waldo]

Fred for downloading stuff I use Azureus, to find the torrents I use http://www.mininova.org/ VLC doesn't download just plays everything under the sun. If a browser is upgraded VLC is upgraded very soon after, without the buy me upgrade me as Groggy pointed out.

[Groggy]

Greg, I haven't once received received ads or suggestion to buy the "full" version.

Don't know if it still does it. It used to drive me batty and I won't use it again because of it.

[Big Shed]

Thanks Chris, my opinion of Azureus is not a very good one I'm afraid. I use BitLord for torrent downloads and it is seamless. I also use Mininova, but prefer Demonoid, there is some good stuff there.

The only thing I use RealPlayer for, and it does it very well, is downloading videos such as YouTube ones. I have visited the RealPlayer site and they say they are working on an upgrade fro Firefox 3.

Don't really know why I said yes to the Firefox 3 upgrade, there was nothing that didn't work for me in V2. Usually I go and have a look around before I upgrade any software.
If it does what I need it to do, I stay with the version I have.

My desktop puter is still on Win2000, my notebook is on WinXp only because it came with it.

Usually I take the view "if it ain't broke don't fix it", but must have had a brain fade with Firefox 3, having said that everything else seems to work just fine, and I still think that Firefox is the best browser out.

[Waldo]

I'll have a look into BitLord.

[Fuzzie]

Don't really know why I said yes to the Firefox 3 upgrade, there was nothing that didn't work for me in V2. Usually I go and have a look around before I upgrade any software.
If it does what I need it to do, I stay with the version I have.

I did the upgrade because an upgrade to a plugin I was using wasn't backward compatible. I'm not sure 3 is really faster, as was promised, and it wouldn't update on my eeepc because of rev diffs in tcl or something.

I don't like some features of the new 'smart' address bar, I don't particularly want to see some of the rarely used bookmarks showing up as potential matches.

However IMO the re-engineered zoom function is worth the upgrade. Entire pages zoom properly now including images. This is a winner for me.

[Chris Parks]

I upgraded, found the RP plugin didn't work as Big Shed has experienced and promptly went back to the previous version. Mind you the only time I use FF is for video DL.