firefox & realplayer

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Realplayer has a feature where you can capture streaming videos. It is set up to operate with Firefox 3.5 and IE8. I have been using this feature mostly under Firefox. However after the latest update from Firefox (3.5.4), the feature stopped functioning. Has anyone encountered this problem and is there a remedy? I am sure I am not alone, since the Firefox users forum has many complaints about the same problem.
 
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Realplayer has a feature where you can capture streaming videos. It is set up to operate with Firefox 3.5 and IE8. I have been using this feature mostly under Firefox. However after the latest update from Firefox (3.5.4), the feature stopped functioning. Has anyone encountered this problem and is there a remedy? I am sure I am not alone, since the Firefox users forum has many complaints about the same problem.
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Usually it take a while for the patch to be made available. It won't likely be a firefox patch, but a Realplayer one so keep an eye out for updates.
 
Today I got a Firefox update (3.5.5) - the problem remains. I believe the problem is with Firefox, not Realplayer, since the feature works fine when I use IE8. Moreover Realplayer hasn't changed recently, while Firefox 3.5.4 is only a week or so old. There was no problem with Firefox 3.5.3.
 
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Today I got a Firefox update (3.5.5) - the problem remains. I believe the problem is with Firefox, not Realplayer, since the feature works fine when I use IE8. Moreover Realplayer hasn't changed recently, while Firefox 3.5.4 is only a week or so old. There was no problem with Firefox 3.5.3.
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I didn't mean to suggest it was a realplayer problem. It's just in regards to software development projects like Firefox and the compatiblity with third party applications like realplayer, there is a point in time when specifications might be changed for security reasons.

This usually means that developers from both sides of this development coupling have to share what changes have been made between each other, in the rare occurances it's not just one sharing with the other but development between the two.

I guess I'm saying Mozilla might of plugged an exploitable bug in the translation code to the realplayer plugin, but being only one side of this coupling they could only do half the job, leaving the other half up to the realplayer lot.

Have you tried reinstalling realplayer or checking for plugin updates?

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From the Firefox update Known issues:
Web pages can no longer automatically install PKCS11 cryptographic tokens. Users are now required to do this manually or install an Add-on that installs them (see instructions and documentation)
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I'm not entirely sure but perhaps realplayer uses these cryptotokens, since they won't automatically install they would fail the stream causing it to error. It's hypothesis of courses since I'm not entirely sure if realplayer even uses PKCS.
 
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I got an updated version of realplayer today - the firefox problem seems to have been fixed.
 
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