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FYI... IE 5.5 SP2 utoh's
Blatent rip from the Langa list newsletter...
IE5.5 SP2 Breaks Quicktime, Other Netscape PlugIns
Service Pack 2 for IE5.5 recently became available via Windows Update (
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ ), and it's generally OK. In fact, I
believe that IE5.5 is actually the best overall "free" browser available
now--- certainly far from perfect, but quite good. (For me, Opera's
never worked as well as its many supporters led me to believe it would;
and AOL/Netscape has become a sluggish, ad-encrusted marketing tool for
AOL's other offerings....)
In any case, Service Pack 2 cleans up quite a number of bugs. (See
for the full list of everything changed in SP2.)
But with this release, Microsoft dropped support for the older
proprietary Netscape "plug in" format. (See
http://support.microsoft.com/support...303401&SD=MSKB )
Both Microsoft and Netscape are moving towards adherence of
W3C standards for browsers, and the old Netscape Plug-In models are not
standard.
One of the most widely-used old-style plug-ins was the Apple Quicktime
player that supported the older "MOV" format used in Quicktime. Apple
already has released a new Quicktime player that works correctly with
IE5.5 SP2: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ Other vendors using old-
style plug-ins will most likely be releasing updates as well. (Thanks to
reader Leo Feret for being first to send along a head-up about this.)
If you're feeling adventurous, reader George Gombos has a more complex,
do-it-yourself fix that goes further, and allows IE to run other PlugIns-
-- not just Apple's:
I bet you have read about the MS IE 5.5 SP2 (and 6.0 beta
builds available on the net, and the interim builds bundled
with WinXP/2002 RC releases) inability of playing QuickTime
Movie (QTM) flics in MOV format.
The good news is Apple issued an ActiveX plugin fix, but it
only enables QTM in these IE releases, does NOT take care of
the other Netscape-style plugins, because Microsoft
*completely* removed support for all these Netscape-only
plugins that do not include ActiveX extensions/plugs. So I
found a fix... )
Please take a few minutes to read all about it here:
This works great with Win98 SE and ME + MS IE 5.5 SP2 and 6.0
(haven't tested on Win2000 or XP).
George's fix isn't particularly hard, but you have to be careful and
follow all his directions. If you have good backups and enjoy pushing
the PC envelope a bit, you may wish to give it a try. 8-)
Service Pack 2 for IE5.5 recently became available via Windows Update (
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ ), and it's generally OK. In fact, I
believe that IE5.5 is actually the best overall "free" browser available
now--- certainly far from perfect, but quite good. (For me, Opera's
never worked as well as its many supporters led me to believe it would;
and AOL/Netscape has become a sluggish, ad-encrusted marketing tool for
AOL's other offerings....)
In any case, Service Pack 2 cleans up quite a number of bugs. (See
for the full list of everything changed in SP2.)
But with this release, Microsoft dropped support for the older
proprietary Netscape "plug in" format. (See
http://support.microsoft.com/support...303401&SD=MSKB )
Both Microsoft and Netscape are moving towards adherence of
W3C standards for browsers, and the old Netscape Plug-In models are not
standard.
One of the most widely-used old-style plug-ins was the Apple Quicktime
player that supported the older "MOV" format used in Quicktime. Apple
already has released a new Quicktime player that works correctly with
IE5.5 SP2: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ Other vendors using old-
style plug-ins will most likely be releasing updates as well. (Thanks to
reader Leo Feret for being first to send along a head-up about this.)
If you're feeling adventurous, reader George Gombos has a more complex,
do-it-yourself fix that goes further, and allows IE to run other PlugIns-
-- not just Apple's:
I bet you have read about the MS IE 5.5 SP2 (and 6.0 beta
builds available on the net, and the interim builds bundled
with WinXP/2002 RC releases) inability of playing QuickTime
Movie (QTM) flics in MOV format.
The good news is Apple issued an ActiveX plugin fix, but it
only enables QTM in these IE releases, does NOT take care of
the other Netscape-style plugins, because Microsoft
*completely* removed support for all these Netscape-only
plugins that do not include ActiveX extensions/plugs. So I
found a fix... )
Please take a few minutes to read all about it here:
This works great with Win98 SE and ME + MS IE 5.5 SP2 and 6.0
(haven't tested on Win2000 or XP).
George's fix isn't particularly hard, but you have to be careful and
follow all his directions. If you have good backups and enjoy pushing
the PC envelope a bit, you may wish to give it a try. 8-)
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