Microsoft releases H.264 video plug-in for Windows 7 Firefox users

<DIV class=separator style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit6MVljoKDI8fXkyGLA9ALFX-NAHTSQXysqZuE8W05NVJzaqI_sY4gf_YyvNOUPwVQEoIqwU-8sD5kIzf3MM6vJh6LVVGdgT6lwQowNbt9H9ZemRMvMtaGLjHWOCzdXsU_cwAyt7miHMI/s1600/firefox-addon-12-17-2010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit6MVljoKDI8fXkyGLA9ALFX-NAHTSQXysqZuE8W05NVJzaqI_sY4gf_YyvNOUPwVQEoIqwU-8sD5kIzf3MM6vJh6LVVGdgT6lwQowNbt9H9ZemRMvMtaGLjHWOCzdXsU_cwAyt7miHMI/s1600/firefox-addon-12-17-2010.jpg"></A></DIV>We're assuming it would still prefer you use Internet Explorer for all your web browsing needs, but Microsoft is now lending something of a helping hand to Windows 7 users that insist on using Firefox for one reason or another. It's just released a plug-in that gets around Firefox's current limitations in handling H.264-encoded videos on HTML5 pages by taking advantage of the H.264 support built into Windows 7. On a more technical level, that means the plug-in parses HTML5 pages and replaces the Video tags with a call to the Windows Media Player plug-in, which then allows the content to be played right in the browser. Sound like just what you've been waiting for? Hit up the link below to download the add-on and try it yourself.

Microsoft releases H.264 video plug-in for Windows 7 Firefox users

We're assuming it would still prefer you use Internet Explorer for all your web browsing needs, but Microsoft is now lending something o...

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