# Getting quicktime to work in Firefox

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-quicktime-to-work-in-firefox/312611
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 15, 2005, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-quicktime-to-work-in-firefox/312611 "2005-07-15T03:04:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2005, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-quicktime-to-work-in-firefox/312611/1 "2005-07-15T03:04:17Z")

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I seem to have problems with opening quicktime files and such in Firefox. Is there a plug in somewhere I can download? I have Quicktime itself, but that still doesn’t seem to work right.

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### Author: ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-quicktime-to-work-in-firefox/312611/2 "2005-07-15T05:34:29Z")

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What problem, specifically, are you having? Do you just get a blank page? Is it causing Firefox to stop responding? Are you getting any error messages? We need more details about exactly _how_ it’s failing.

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### Author: ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2005, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-quicktime-to-work-in-firefox/312611/3 "2005-07-15T09:54:25Z")

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I gave up on Quicktime in Firefox a long time past. But I haven’t tried it in more recent versions. It either never worked, or caused catastrophic hangs.

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### Author: ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2005, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-quicktime-to-work-in-firefox/312611/4 "2005-07-15T10:05:30Z")

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Haven’t had much success myself, normally I just fish the URL out of the source and download it. Which is a better way anyway, IMO.

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### Author: ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-quicktime-to-work-in-firefox/312611/5 "2005-07-15T15:01:43Z")

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I use [Media Player Classic](http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358) and [QuicktimeAlternative](http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm), and for the most part this setup works fine.

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### Author: ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-quicktime-to-work-in-firefox/312611/6 "2005-07-15T15:26:50Z")

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i’m having no problems with the latest quicktime plugin and firefox 1.0.5

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### Author: ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-quicktime-to-work-in-firefox/312611/7 "2005-07-15T16:25:22Z")

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Never had a problem with it but like **MHENDO** , prefer to use RealAlternative and QuickTimeAlternative.