New Feature: Attachments!

MichaelHorowitz

I use PC firefox without any problems. Sounds like your firewall may be blocking the attachments. Try turning it off..

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plankity

thanks for the speedy reply

I don't think it's that: my firewall is in the router - my son just switched to firefox and he can watch and listen to inline files in the forum fine but I can't (!) and he is behind the same firewall.

I gave up on the attachment viewing a while back but his success got me thinking and tickering... he said an ad-blocker plugin changed his capability.

I'll keep trying

Norman CT/USA

Jack

Hey Norm,

If your son just switched to Firefox, maybe it's the version you're using? You could try updating to the latest one to see if that helps...

Best,
Jack.

plankity

This is VERY Puzzling: thanks for the suggestion, Jack -- My son made me do just that earlier and I just tried the Firefox on my laptop, which works fine.

So maybe I *am* the only one having this problem!

Back to the drawing board...

If I figure anything out (or a work-around) I will post it here.

Norman CT/USA

pallopenna

I would also check your settings on Firefox to make sure that you don't have different permissions, and different extensions on the various versions of the browser.

-Paul

plankity

Finally got it working! I checked the pagecode and then searched on 'wmp' at addons.mozilla.org, where I found this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1879/
a 35 KB download that allows Active-X objects inline.

Thanks to all who made suggestions: this (at the very least) kept me looking and trying different solutions.

I hope this can work for others who may have similar problems.

best,
Norman CT/USA

raybright

I'm using Mac w/Firefox and cannot view .wmv, and the link to the plug-in says, no plug-in available.

Don't want to sound too, Macsnob, but that .wmv format is really restrictive. In typical MicroSoft fashion Windows Media Player seems like an all or nothing player. Quicktime is much more - forgiving.

Barengero

TedGottsegen wrote:

Why don't you just download IE for the mac? It's probably work...

In June 2003, the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit announced that Internet Explorer for Mac would undergo no further development, and support would cease in 2005. In accordance with published support lifecycle policies, Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31st, 2005, and is not providing any further security or performance updates.

Accordingly, as of January 31st, 2006, Internet Explorer for the Mac is no longer available for download from Microsoft. It is recommended that Macintosh users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari.

Best,
Barengero

joef

This has been covered before but some of you may not have picked up on it.

For Mac users, you can view the attachments with quicktime ( eg directly in Safari ) if you download Windows Media Components for Quicktime.

Free download at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... layLang=en

regards

Joe

Dezi

Michael how about to allow midi files attachment and zip or rar files because I try to upload some midi and band in box file and can't. Thanks