Wmp Firefox Plugin Relnotes

********************************************************************** Release Notes for Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin April 2007 ********************************************************************** Welcome to the release notes for Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin. Information in this document, including URL and other Internet Web site references, is subject to change without notice and is provided for informational purposes only. The entire risk of the use or results of the use of this document remains with the user, and Microsoft Corporation makes no warranties, either express or implied. Unless otherwise noted, the example companies, organizations, products, people and events depicted herein are fictitious and no association with any real company, organization, product, person or event is intended or should be inferred. Complying with all applicable copyright laws is the responsibility of the user. Without limiting the rights under copyright, no part of this document may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), or for any purpose, without the express written permission of Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft may have patents, patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights covering subject matter in this document. Except as expressly provided in any written license agreement from Microsoft, the furnishing of this document does not give you any license to these patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property. (c) 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, MS-DOS, Windows, Windows NT, Active Directory, ActiveX, DirectShow, DirectSound, Hotmail, MSN, Outlook, PowerPoint, SideWinder, Visual Basic, Visio, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Visual Studio, and Windows Media are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. ====================================================================== POST INSTALLATION NOTES ====================================================================== 1. WMP uses the IE browser proxy settings -------------------------------------------------If you have specific proxy settings in your browser, you will need to map these same settings through the IE proxy settings. This plugin will not read any proxy settings cached in the Firefox browser. You can change the Proxy settings in IE through Tools, Internet Options, Connections, LAN settings.

2. Target attribute in tag will play media in new tab -------------------------------------------------Windows Media Player content that is linked to with an tag with a target attribute, will be played in a new tab within the browser. 3. VT_DATE Variant returns a string instead of a Date object --------------------------------------------------

4. The Status bar is always displayed regardless of the ShowStatusBar value --------------------------------------------------