RW and Firefox

[JouniL]

Hi!

Since I was hooked on RW (less than a year ago) I allways had problems playing songs through the Riffcaster pages using the Firefox browser. I press the play button on a riffcast and the song loads (loading bar turns brown) but the song doesn't start. Sometimes it starts but stops after a few seconds, then I have to contiously press the play button to hear the song. This never happens with IE. Since I prefer Firefox before IE I wonder if anyone's got a workaround for this?

/Jouni

[mickeymix]

Right click the bar at the top of Firefox and click "customize" to add the IE tab to your toolbar....once done ........just highlight it and click (Right,Middle or Left)to change the rendering engine in Firefox to switch between IE and Firefox....handy for a lot of websites that don't quite look or act the same in Firefox......hope that works for ya ..

[JouniL]

Coolness Mickey, next beer is on me. For you other guys, first you need to download the "IE Tab" extension for Firefox, works like a charm ...

[mickeymix]

MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm next Beer!

[randy]

Hmmm, I haven't seen that problem in a long time with Firefox. Are you using the latest version - Firefox 3?

[JouniL]

Yepp, I use FF3. i have to admit it became much better with FF3. You need to open many tabs and browse several pages deep before it starts happening.

[cwight]

I have FF3 and it still happens with me occasionally, often it will tell me I need to install the flash player, even though I know it's installed. The only workaround I've found is to shut down FF and restart it. That generally clears it. I'll try Mickeys advice for sure tho.

[davenz]

The same thing happens with Opera, no doubt some implementation of Flash that has things going awry. Often, I have to right-click on the 'Play' button and select 'Play' from the flash menu because for some reason it does not autoplay the swf, which it should. I refuse outright to use IE, though version 7 and 8 are not bad (though shameless FF clones). I tried Google Chrome and though it is very fast, it also displays RW player behaviour as above. Oh well, pity the site can't be modded to work properly with all browsers, not just IE, ironically the worst standards-compliant brower out there.

Dave.

[randy]

I don't think anyone in our company uses IE. Chrome seems pretty good, though it's actually slower than FF3 when working with our support ticket system. I was a little disappointed about that. I also can't find a way of adding customer words, like RiffWorks, etc, to it's spell check library. Otherwise it's pretty kick butt.

[davenz]

@Randy, yes I am using it too, seduced by it's speed. I too am disappointed it is slow with the site you mention. Still, it is a beta and there is a feature to report a site that doesn't work well. And the inability to add words to the user dictionary is a little limiting...

Dave.

[blue4u]

I've noticed the same thing with FireFox using both versions, 2 and 3...

[Rotund]

I have had the same problem with firefox and mickey's suggestion did fix the problem but I lose some of the features I like in firefox using the ie engine. it appears that way anyway

[mickeymix]

You can always click back and forth with the IE Tab....another cool download is Cool Iris...it allows you to preview a page just by highlighting it......most cool...


You can get it here...


https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2207

[JouniL]

Oh no, this happens in Google Chrome also ... loads but doesn't play ...

[davenz]

Oh no, this happens in Google Chrome also ... loads but doesn't play ...

Yep, I reported that as well; I often have to right click on the flash movie (the player) and select 'Play' to get it to work at all. Then half the time it 'plays' but without sound. A bother to say the least.

It is probably because Flash and the implementation here is coded specifically to work in Internet Explorer, not for other (better) applications which more strictly adhere to web conventions. If only I could bottle a solution and distribute it...

Dave.