Open movies in browser

Why does Quicktime insist on opening some downloaded movies in Safari (which I prefer), and others only in a QT window? This happens on some websites that used to automatically open the mpgs in Safari. Any guesses? Thanks.

The option to have a QuickTime file open in a browser window or in the QT Player is controlled by the Web page author.
Pages can have special html code that "calls" the plug-in and gives it instructions how to display the file. They can even display a QuickTime file "Full Screen".
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Can't open movie files in browser or email

Hi, I'm not sure if this issue has been dealt with yet; however, I can't open movie files contained in emails or in my Safari Browser--even ones labeled as QT files. I am running Quick Time 7.0.4 on my 10.3.9 eMac. This is a recent problem, as I didn't have this difficulty until the last month or so. I had unchecked the "Open Safe Files" box in Safari's preferences some time ago as a precaution against a virus/worm, but rechecked it after the last one or two Security Updates. What else should I do to resume opening movie files? QT Player runs just fine with movie trailers, etc, but not in mails or the browser.
eMac, iBook Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1 Ghz G4, 768 mb ram

Under the Safari Help menu choose "Installed Plug-ins". This will confirm your QuickTime install.
Under Safari Preferences/Security make sure you've got plug-ins enabled.
Try dragging the email attachment to the Desktop and see if it plays from there.

How can I stop Quicktime movies opening my web browser?

Sorry if this has allready been brought up but I spent an hour searched the forums for an answer (And longer on google).
My issue is that certain unsavory people seem to be exploiting an ability of quicktime to launch the default web browser and goto a page they designate. This unfortunately mean often I will download a movie (Named something it isn't typicly), run it and suddenly have 10 internet explorer windows pop up opening assorted **** sites, sites demanding spyware and malware installations and on at least one occasion site containing scripts to automaticly install a virus on loading.
I'd like to how I can prevent this from happening short fo outright not using quicktime. Is there an option to disable a movies ability to link to web pages or a feature to block their attemtps to do so?
Thanks.

No. I don't have any viruses or spyware and I havn't been hijacked either. Look a little background on me, I work in tech support dealing with such issues for a living. Regardless I've had this happen on brand new computers I've set up and for the sake of been thorough in eliminating that idea as a possibility I followed every step and recommendation your links gave me and they turned up nothing.
The problem is a function of certain .mov files which basically activate an imbeded hyperlink within the file, opening the default browser and loading whatever site the link lead to. If I could find a tame one that didn't send you to pornographic sites etc. I'd be happy to host it for you to test out yourself but frankly the only .mov files I've seen that do it are usually **** films themselves named something else (For instance one was named SydneyOlympics2004Opening) with the intention of luring unsuspecting victims into downloading them and running them in quicktime forcing them to load all these malicious pages. It's fine for me on my home network where the security settings are setup so hazardous sites can't actually do anything and the addition of pornographic images to my temporary internet folder has no concequences but at work that could get you fired and heavily fined in goverment employment.
On a side note how another program could respond to a .mov file playing in quicktime opening web pages specific to that file and at set points in the movies timeline is beyond me. It would have to be a plugin for quicktime.

Open pdf in browser: inexplicable issue

Hi, so I've been using flash for a little while, mainly self-taught. The following is an AS2 question, because I'm still wading my way through AS3, being completely unfamiliar with programming.
I'm trying to do something that i've done in the past in most versions of flash between MX and CS3, but now I'm doing it with cs5.5 which I haven't done before.
I have a fairly simple interactive portfolio which will be burned onto CD.
In one page, I have a button which aims to link to a PDF that's in the same directory as the flash movie, in the user's default browser, using
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However, now what's happening is that the browser opens (and i've tried it in chrome and internet explorer), and appears to attempt to open a URL called 'a_document.pdf' or 'http://a_document.pdf' in chrome and explorer respectively, which of course isn't a real url, and so it gives me a 'page not found'. Has something changed in the way either CS5 or most modern browsers open documents in this manner that would mean doing things like that? If so, how would I go about getting it to open off the local location?

kid-hatrack wrote:
I have a fairly simple interactive portfolio which will be burned onto CD.
What server? Sorry, that sounds snarky, I know you're trying to help me. But, swf is on local drive, pdf is on local drive. Opens great online, which makes sense, considering getURL is designed to open urls, but tries to parse filename as a url, which I feel like it didn't used to do.
Anyhow, after further internetting, I think my best bet is to figure out what fscommand is and how to use it.

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for Acrobat to open the PDF, or have it open in their browser,
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You can click on the button/ go to windows/ behaviors/ click
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Unable to open movies in certain sites using Firefox 4, no problem with former versions

As a almost daily visitor of the site Bigfun.be I got a crash every time I wanted to open a movie, since I started using Firefox 4.
After some automatic updates, the crashes disappeared.
But it's still unable to open movie files. There is a message which says that the file is being loaded, but it isn't.
I've contacted the webmaster, he knows about the problem and suggested me to uninstall the version 4 and to go back to the 3.6 version.

I went to that site and played a couple of movies without a problem. Cat & Budgie and Horse on the back seat of a car...lol.
Have a look at your firewall logs. Is the firewall blocking '''plugin_container.exe''' by any chance? That utility is part of Firefox and acts like a kind of sandbox to isolate plugins which crash without crashing the whole browser. But it does need Internet access. Generally speaking, what often happens is the firewall throws up an alert to which the user doesn't respond. So the firewall 'assumes' it's a threat and blocks it.
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Hi,
I just wondered if anyone else has experienced this.. I am trying to open a movie which is 2.77gb (DVCPRO50) in size.. Upon selecting it within the file browser, (before even clicking OK), Logic crashes.
This happens when video is set to either "window" and "firewire dv".
Also, this video file is on a separate Esata 2tb raid, completely isolated from my logic files/libraries.
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I just tested this scenario out on 7.1.1, loading a 3.2G QT movie using the columns view to select the movie. No crashes. Tried this by opening movie as float as well as in a regular window. No crashes.
The compression type of the movie in question is Sorenson Video 3, and I'm using QT (Pro) 7.03.
(I don't have a FW output card, so I could only test in "window" mode).
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Why does iMovie '11 crash when opening the transition browser?

I need help ASAP!
I am editing a movie for my mom and I need to add transitions between clips but when I open the transition browser the whole thing freezes, then crashes. I am using a 13" 2010 Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo with Mac OS 10.7.2 and iMovie version 9.0.4 (2011). Please help me figure out why it won't let me open it!

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Delete iMovie Preferences
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Repair Disk Permissions
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Sorry. I reached help documents from within Flash.
The part about get(URL) starts by saying, "this example loads an image into a movie clip".
But I don't have any interest in doing that.
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I would like to open a Firefox browser with multiple tabs per topic, like work1/work2/hobby and see that given name in the taskbar, instead of the tab-name

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Another alternative by the way maybe to use multiple Firefox profiles. I will give more information on that if required. It is fairly easy if you are used to using computers but not something this forum officially supports with KB articles.
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The people who answer questions here, for the most part, are other Firefox users volunteering their time (like me), not Mozilla employees or Firefox developers.
If you want to leave feedback for Firefox developers, you can go to the Firefox ''Help'' menu and select ''Submit Feedback...'' or use [https://input.mozilla.org/feedback this link]. (You'll need to be on the latest version of Firefox to submit feedback). Your feedback gets collected at http://input.mozilla.org/, where a team of people read it and gather data about the most common issues.

I've installed the Adobe Reader Plug In. Yet every time I click to see a PDF, it opens another browser and it is blank. The Browser reads about:blank. How can I fix this so that PDF's open in the browser?

I've installed the Adobe Reader Plug In. Yet every time I click to see a PDF, it opens another browser and it is blank. The Browser reads about:blank. How can I fix this so that PDF's open in the browser?

Check your settings in Options > Applications: https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Opening%20PDF%20files%20within%20Firefox#w_check-firefox-settings
Also see:
*https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using%20the%20Adobe%20Reader%20plugin%20with%20Firefox
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.sessionstore.resume_session_once
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*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Multiple_profile_files_created
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