Quicktime movies in Firefox 3.0.2

Since I've installed the newest version of Firefox, i can't seem to open any quicktime movies inside my browser (it shows me the message that it lacks a plugin, altough it says being installed when i go to the Extras section).
Any help? Thanks already.

I think I'm having the same problem.
Firefox doesn't play any quicktime video from apple site. Let's take any Mac x PC ad, for example.
Versions: Firefox 3.0.2, Quicktime 7.5.5, Leopard 10.5.5.
Background:
The Safari plugin was broken until I removed the /Library/QuickTime Plugin.webplugin today so now, Safari is good to go.
What I've already tried:
Firefox on the other hand apparently uses the /Library/QuickTime Plugin.plugin filder, which exists. If I remove it, Firefox doesn't display any more messages regarding the lack of a plugin and the video doesn't play - I've waited about 2 minutes on an 3MB ADSL connection. After this I reinstalled Quicktime 7.5.5 and the folders were there again. Removed the Safari one and Safari was ok again. Firefox was still no good. As the about:plugins address on Firefox showed something like this:
aplicativo/sdp Descritor de transmissão SDP sdp Sim
aplicativo/x-sdp Descritor de transmissão SDP sdp Sim
aplicativo/x-rtsp Descritor de transmissão RTSP rtsp,rts Sim
v Filme QuickTime mov,qt,mqv Sim
v Vídeo para Windows avi,vfw Sim
v Vídeo para Windows avi,vfw Sim
v Vídeo para Windows avi,vfw Sim
v AutoDesk Animator flc,fli,cel Sim
Áudio WAVE wav,bwf Sim
I'm pretty pretty shure that this a Localization problem because it doesn't display the letters with accent:
video == vídeo
audio == áudio
So I've tried to edit the file: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist to this:
1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2 <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
3 <plist version="1.0">
4 <dict>
5 <key>WebPluginLocalizationName</key>
6 <string>en_US</string>
7 <key>WebPluginMIMETypes</key>
8 <dict>
9 <key>application/sdp</key>
10 <dict>
11 <key>WebPluginExtensions</key>
12 <array>
13 <string>sdp</string>
14 </array>
15 <key>WebPluginTypeDescription</key>
16 <string>Descritor de transmissão SDP</string>
17 <key>WebPluginTypeEnabled</key>
18 <false/>
19 </dict>
... (many more lines)
with console's vim. Reopened Firefox ant it was the same: when try to access a video page, Plugin not found... Still not happy, I tried to remove the pref and restart Firefox. Still not good...
Opened System Preferences/Quicktime/Advanced(tab) in Mime, changed some codec to false and the file went back to pt_BR:
1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2 <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
3 <plist version="1.0">
4 <dict>
5 <key>WebPluginLocalizationName</key>
6 <string>pt_BR</string>
7 <key>WebPluginMIMETypes</key>
8 <dict>
9 <key>aplicativo/sdp</key>
10 <dict>
11 <key>WebPluginExtensions</key>
12 <array>
13 <string>sdp</string>
14 </array>
15 <key>WebPluginTypeDescription</key>
16 <string>Descritor de transmissão SDP</string>
17 <key>WebPluginTypeEnabled</key>
18 <false/>
19 </dict>
... (many more lines)
and no PC x Mac Ad yet...
Any suggestion?
Thanks!
Pirolla.

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