jpd Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 After I installed and use google chrome... the 'windows media player'(at least I believe it's the WMP plugin) icon on my bros. website will not appear correctly. The song plays correctly, but the wmp 'object' (for lack of a better word) does not appear 'useable' and hence I am not able to stop, pause, or replay the song. I reinstalled 'windows media player and flash' plug ins but no changed.I never had this problem in Internet Explorer. I changed to 'chrome' bc it was a MUCH faster browser (and simpler, from what I've experienced so far).Signed,Confused Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Not a direct response to your enquiry but, WMP is way down my list of choices for a media player.There are lots of others around which, I'm fairly sure, have better Chrome compatibility.Open source VideoLan is a good one to try for a starter. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Not a direct response to your enquiry but, WMP is way down my list of choices for a media player.There are lots of others around which, I'm fairly sure, have better Chrome compatibility.Open source VideoLan is a good one to try for a starter. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/Nice one pops. I love Windows 7, but since installing it I sometimes receive e mails with videos and they won't play. I have to right click and save to desk top, then right click and select a program to play them in as WMP won't play WMV files. This one is now my default player and plays the lot. THANKS.B) B) B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpd Posted February 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Not a direct response to your enquiry but, WMP is way down my list of choices for a media player.There are lots of others around which, I'm fairly sure, have better Chrome compatibility.Open source VideoLan is a good one to try for a starter. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/Well... I think I misworded my previous problem. I have background music at my brother's website (I put his website together for him using Homestead Web Design). When I open the website with IE, the music was/is fine and the 'music player' works fine, but with chrome... it doesn't work properly. I'm not sure what to make of it. When I open the webpage in lieu of the object that plays the music... the words... 'plug in needed' is there. I just assumed it was the Windows Media Player plug in that I needed, but maybe I'm wrong with that assumption. Now thats just the beginning of it. I have the SAME music at my website (that I designed with the same webdesigner) and when I navigate to my website... the background music is playing...but the actual music player is not operable (I can't hit stop, play, or pause). But the the music is fine and playing. I think I need a plug in to fix both problems, but I'm not sure what plug in I need for chrome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 I don't know Chrome; I use Firefox. When Firefox finds that a plugin is missing, it will give me a link to the plugin download. Doesn't Chrome do that, or at least name the missing plugin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpd Posted February 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 I don't know Chrome; I use Firefox. When Firefox finds that a plugin is missing, it will give me a link to the plugin download. Doesn't Chrome do that, or at least name the missing plugin?From what I've experienced with my website...it hasn't. It just states... 'Missing Plug In'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 I never had this problem in Internet Explorer.Signed,ConfusedI only run IE on Windows.Slow at times.Hangs a bit here and there (refresh usually puts it right),but has been dependable.I did try Chrome a while back,it came with woes as well....Two Pence, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacksSmith Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 I think WMP is a windows application which does not support other browsers than IE. Because of that this problem is arising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scythe Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 WMP plugins work on opera, safari, and FIREFOX. If it's a chrome bug, go tell google, they might know a fix (be it site-side or client side) to resolve this, if they can't find one they might look into fixing it in an upcoming chrome release. Firefox is still king of the browsers, tho, in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 There are comments posted suggesting that Chrome uses the same WMP plugin as Firefox. Not tried it but it may be worth a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merry1 Posted May 9, 2011 Report Share Posted May 9, 2011 I am using chorme from a long time never had such issue, it is much faster then any other browser. you should try reinstalling it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scythe Posted May 9, 2011 Report Share Posted May 9, 2011 I am using chorme from a long time never had such issue, it is much faster then any other browser. you should try reinstalling it.False. Opera is the fastest browser by default configuration, but it punishes servers by default, too. You see, browsers load content at a rate consistent with two factors, data transfer speed, and render speed. Now, opera uses multiple connection pipes (all browsers do) to get the speed, however Opera uses somewhere over 30, which forces the server to divide the content between the content, which is another processing thread. Chrome, I know for certain, uses fewer pipes by default, but about: config -> network.http.pipelining.maxrequests is the same exact thing in firefox. It's merely a matter of default settings. In some web publication I was reading a while ago, the Firefox 4 web rendering engine rendered content faster than webkit (Chrome, Opera, and safari's content render environment), but it used significantly more ram. tl;dr despite the advertising hinting towards it being fastest, chrome is not. It's not the fastest in either of the categories (by default). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBaxter Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 I use Chrome , IE9 and FF4 in Windows 7. Chrome can be faster but it crashes too often, especially with plugins etc installed.I have not used latest version of Opera yet, but I have heard on so many places and seen comparison-graphs that Opera is the fastest.So far I am impressed with the stability of IE9 though, only issue with IE9 is that some CSS5 things are not displayed in IE9 as they used to be displayed on FF and Chrome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scythe Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 Do you mean CSS3 or HTML5? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HannahJohn Posted July 26, 2011 Report Share Posted July 26, 2011 I would suggest you to change the browser because google chorme still have some bugs and this one is one of them. Latest firefox version may help you please install new Firefox and then try again with this plug in. Hope your problem will be solved then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsolexpert Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 You need to down load the plugin of WMP.Or install KM Player it supports all kind of file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varindia Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 I use Chrome , IE9 and FF4 in Windows 7. Chrome can be faster but it crashes too often, especially with plugins etc installed.I have not used latest version of Opera yet, but I have heard on so many places and seen comparison-graphs that Opera is the fastest.So far I am impressed with the stability of IE9 though, only issue with IE9 is that some CSS5 things are not displayed in IE9 as they used to be displayed on FF and Chrome. I don't like to make the browser heavy unless the plugin is necessary. The chrome is good in all respect except the memory usage. Comparatively it uses more memory with is the problem for PC hardware. The version of chrome always changes and the older version of the same are difficult to find in file servers in internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gladiolus Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 google chrome are provide very fast speed. and provide all and extra feature compare to others.. This is really nice.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cotalika Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 hmm, chrome browser fast speed.. but The chrome is good in all respect except the memory usage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godflea Posted March 16, 2012 Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 Not a direct response to your enquiry but, WMP is way down my list of choices for a media player. There are lots of others around which, I'm fairly sure, have better Chrome compatibility. Open source VideoLan is a good one to try for a starter. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/I agree with pops. But still, what has Chrome to do with WMP? I bet you have some other serious problems with Internet Explorer.Anyway, take pops advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varindia Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 I think the 2nd choice should be Firefox, it a good browser and very helpful comparing to IE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedfiz Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 i never find such this problem.... its better to contact GC support.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JillADDison Posted May 20, 2014 Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 Chrome uses the same WMP plugin as Firefox. You can use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rekhasharma Posted May 26, 2014 Report Share Posted May 26, 2014 Google Chrome is a web browser like Internet Explorer. It is very simple. There is an address bar, tabs bar, forward and back buttons, and settings. It is easy to use and has some nice features. For instance, you can type a search into the address bar instead of having to go to google.com. Sometimes online applications are a little slow with it, but for normal websites it's very fast. However, you can get Mozilla Firefox and go into the address bar and type about:config and then search pipelining and set all of the options to true and set max requests to 40 and it goes as fast as Google Chrome. Firefox feels a lot like Internet Explorer and Google Chrome feels a lot like Safari. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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