Playing Quicktime movies in Firefox

Whenever I reach a webpage, example football365.com that has embedded video, Quicktime plays the video as a separate window rather than within the webpage.
I use Firefox 2.0.0.15 and Quicktime Player 7.5.0 on Mac OS 10.5.4.
Any ideas how to solve this gratefully recieved
Phil

Your example page uses Windows Media Player formats so QuickTime isn't the source of your troubles.
http://flip4mac.com component allows playback of WMP formats via QuickTime so it is doing the work. Sloppy page coding may also be involved.

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