Odd WMP plug-in behaviour in Firefox

Hurrah! I have discovered the culprit.

As I was trying to run WMP in SeaMonkey on this site I noticed that I got a message at the top of the pop-out about a VLC plug-in crash. I uninstalled VLC, resetting cache files/preferences then re-installed without checking the Firefox plug-in box.

Problem solved.

 

Glad you found out what happened Dave I'd stay away from the VLC plugin, it hasn't been updated in years and has a still unsolved remote vulnerability.

 

Yes, this had been bugging me for a while. I just couldn't understand why it didn't affect my desktop PC. Then I remembered that I deliberately didn't check the VLC plug-in for Firefox box when I installed VLC on it (but did for the notebook, although I don't know why). Considering the security concerns with VLC's plug-in at the moment I consider it a tad serendipitous.

I am always a bit suspect about plug-ins that I don't really need. Around three years ago I couldn't understand why SeaMonkey was crashing so much, then someone on the MozillaZine forums asked me if I had an older version of the Yahoo! Messenger installed. After uninstalling the messenger & its troublesome plug-in SM was fine.

Plug-ins eh? You can't live with 'em ... you can't live without 'em.