# Cannot for the life of me get Quicktime to work in IE

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-for-the-life-of-me-get-quicktime-to-work-in-ie/407813>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 13, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-for-the-life-of-me-get-quicktime-to-work-in-ie/407813 "2007-06-13T05:19:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-for-the-life-of-me-get-quicktime-to-work-in-ie/407813/1 "2007-06-13T05:19:14Z")

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I’ve experienced this problem on more than one computer - I can’t get any Quicktime movies to load from within a website. All I get is a big Q with a question mark where the movie is supposed to run on the page. I’ve installed Quicktime anew, but it still doesn’t recognize in-line movies on a web page.

I set my browser security to low, allowed pop-ups and the like and it still won’t run. Any suggestions? I can access Quicktime settings on the toolbar, and everything there seems set as well - movies are supposed to automatically run.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-for-the-life-of-me-get-quicktime-to-work-in-ie/407813/2 "2007-06-13T05:22:11Z")

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What version of Quicktime? Most recent Quicktime movies require the latest version to run, which is 7.1.x or something close to it. When it can’t run, the question mark comes up.

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**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-for-the-life-of-me-get-quicktime-to-work-in-ie/407813/3 "2007-06-13T14:12:39Z")

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Yes I installed the newest version. It never works

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**Author:** ![mjg6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@mjg6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjg6)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-for-the-life-of-me-get-quicktime-to-work-in-ie/407813/4 "2007-06-13T15:15:57Z")

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I’d download Quicktime Alternative. 'Much less bloated than Apple’s original & doesn’t constantly prompt you to ‘upgrade’…