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Which plugin(s) do I need in order to watch Al Jazeera English on my Mac?

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bob_elkin
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I've been trying to watch Al Jazeera English live on my Macbook, but when I try, I receive a message that I need to install a plugin. When I tell Firefox to find the plugin, it can't, and if I have hit play on the live video, Firefox crashes a few seconds later and has to restart. Can anyone help me, please?

I've been trying to watch Al Jazeera English live on my Macbook, but when I try, I receive a message that I need to install a plugin. When I tell Firefox to find the plugin, it can't, and if I have hit play on the live video, Firefox crashes a few seconds later and has to restart. Can anyone help me, please?

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Websafe
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Hello Bob_Elkin and other readers,

Running Windows XP-home 32 bit – Firefox 3.6.13 myself. When opening the live-stream of Al Jazeera English Firefox tells me a plug-in is missing. Clicking on the plug-in-bar Firefox asks me if I want to install the Real-player plug-in. Haven't tried it myself. You might consider to download the Real-player from: www.real.com/realplayer

Good luck, Websafe.

bob_elkin
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Thanks for your help, but I've already got Real Player. Must be something else missing. I'll figure it out eventually. Thanks again.

cor-el
cor-el
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The RealPlayer doesn't show in your More system details list.

The Live stream page (http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/) uses a Flash player.
You have the Flash plugin installed, so that should be working.

Start Firefox in Use Troubleshoot Mode in Firefox to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).

  • Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.

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Websafe
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Cor-el is right, the live-stream of Al Jazeera English uses Flash. My NoScript extension blocked the Flash-player. The website request for the REAL-player has confused me. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Websafe.

watcherLA
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Hi - I found a tip on another board. If you right click on the flash player (or two finger click I guess in mac speak) you will see a settings box. "To make the video display without crashing Firefox, I had to do what georgek above did: disable hardware acceleration in Flash. However, I couldn't do it in the Flash window on the Al Jazeera web page. Everytime I right clicked and selected Settings, the settings dialogue box was grayed out and I couldn't make any changes. "

Same for all of us - but only - strangely - on Al Jazeera's page. In my Facebook account, where one of my games are that use the Flash player also (TikiResort) it is not grayed out and I was able to deselect it. When I went back to Al Jazeera I looked again - and voila! Deselected and AlJE is playing.

The other post suggested something more complex about going to Macromedia's site and doing the same thing - but it seems to me any other instance of Flash player will do.