Dear Lazy web,
Anyone out there actually know how to get Silverlight 1.0 to work with the Firefox 3.0 betas? I’m just starting the search for information and will update this post if I find the solution.
Dear Lazy web,
Anyone out there actually know how to get Silverlight 1.0 to work with the Firefox 3.0 betas? I’m just starting the search for information and will update this post if I find the solution.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I was trying to build a prototype for an upcoming project and i immediately hit a brick wall when i couldnt even get silverlight to instantiate on the firefox 3 beta web browser (also silverlight on ie8 beta broswer was very buggy and not worth the headache) and decided to give silverlight the flick untill they release silverlight 2.
Apparently firefox 3 has changed the way plugins are rendered/how objects are instantiated so it doesnt load the silverlight plugin correctly. (silverlight itself is not upto my expectations and wouldnt entierly recommend it atm)
Peace Out!
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:49 am
Okay, so I understand they may have changed the way plugins have loaded and there hasn’t since been a Silverlight 1.x release to cater for it, but riddle me this;
How come flash worked fine when I upgraded from Firefox 2 to 3 (beta5) and Silverlight didn’t?
I don’t know/care who’s at fault here, but this is a little annoying. Also makes me wonder if there’s not potentially a quick settings “fix” to make it work again.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Well that’s the big question that Mitchell Baker from Mozilla and/or the guys at silverlight have to answer as i dont have a great background on how firefox 3 renders its plugins nor how silverlight and flash are expected to instantiate.
But the fact that silverlight doesn’t work straight out of the box, is just a turn off for me. If silverlight standalone isnt stable enough and also on IE7-8 browser, you cant really expect much from the guys at mozilla to fix the problem immediately.
Well from what i have read there is no “quick fix” as yet!
Hopefully this annoying issue thats currently lingering in the air gets fixed because i have seen what silverlight has to offer and it would be great to head down that path.
Till then lets lay silverlight to rest!
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
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July 4th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Sweet, thanks for the update, now maybe I’ll try FF3 on my vista machine again.