I was just trying to install Silverlight on my Win XP SP2 machine but without success. If I'm on the Silverlight website it tells me:
You are ready to use Microsoft Silverlight
The latest version of Silverlight 2 is installed:
version Silverlight 2 RTW (2.0.31005.0)
But when I'm on a site that uses Silverlight, e.g. http://www.outdoorchanneloutfitters.tv/ there just appear a stupid banner of Silverlight, that I should install it.
What now? Is there anything wrong? Do Silverlight need any update to work? I mean, I already have SP2 and I'm not out to install SP3...
thanks for your answer. But I have to say that it doesn't work too. Still the same banner:
(I don't know if it depends on the language options of your browser what text is shown, so if you see "Installieren Sie Microsoft Silverlight" it means "Please install Microsoft Silverlight".)
the site http://www.outdoorchanneloutfitters.tv/ is correctly visualized in my machine using Internet Explorer and Chrome, have you tried to reinstall the Silverlight plug-in?
it's a bit funny.. In Firefox it shows me that banner and in my Internet Explorer (still version 6) there is just a grey box. (Do you want to see a screenshot of it?)
Yes, I already have reinstalled it. More than one time but it didn't help.
If Silverlight works for you quite good, can you tell me your system specifications? Maybe it depends on an patch or update of Windows?
I am having the same issue with Firefox - I always get the "Install Silevrlight 2" banner. It works fine in IE 7.
My FF is 3.0.5 and I already have SL 2.0.31005.0 plug-in installed.
So far it has been quite a drag using SL2 - there is just too much aggravation:
It does not work with FF 3 (at least not on any of the 3 PCs that I have)
Older sites developed in Silverlight 2 Beta do not work even in IE 7 and instead I get a great suggestion from Microsoft to contact the site owners and tell them about their naughty little web-page that hasn't been updated, oh since, like yesterday (what
about backward-compatability?)
And don't even get me started on debugging XAML in VS2008 - the error messages are just plain fun to decipher
How is it supposed to be better than Flash if it is still so unmanageable? I am totally new to Silverlight and so far I am not very excited about having to deal with another raw architecture that reminds me so much about the messy and convoluted OLE/COM
development days.
You can try to check the plug-ins or extensions that you are using in FireFox, maybe some of them can cause the silvelight does not work on Firefox, try to disenabled them.
Amanda Wang
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Thanks for your answer. I checked my Addons and it's just the standard things, AdBlockPlus and Flash.
I tried to reinstall Silverlight. I deinstalled Silverlight, rebooted my PC and tried to install again. Now I got an error, that my processor aren't supported. (http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/help.aspx?errorID=1503)
I cannot understand this because my processor aren't too old.
I have an AMD Athlon KuDoz 7.
Okay, I have the answer now. It is the cpu which doesn't support SSE. It really suprises me, because I thought it do.
But I have to say: If Microsoft really want to create a replacement for Flash they should do a lot of things. Bring the support also for old PCs, not just for that ones where you can use Vista AND run a program at once.
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Silverlight and Firefox
Dec 21, 2008 10:39 AM | LINK
Hello everybody!
I was just trying to install Silverlight on my Win XP SP2 machine but without success. If I'm on the Silverlight website it tells me:
You are ready to use Microsoft Silverlight
The latest version of Silverlight 2 is installed:
version Silverlight 2 RTW (2.0.31005.0)
But when I'm on a site that uses Silverlight, e.g. http://www.outdoorchanneloutfitters.tv/ there just appear a stupid banner of Silverlight, that I should install it.
What now? Is there anything wrong? Do Silverlight need any update to work? I mean, I already have SP2 and I'm not out to install SP3...
Thanks a lot,
Squall
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Re: Silverlight and Firefox
Dec 21, 2008 11:18 AM | LINK
Could be site-specific. Can you see http://wildermuth.com/silverlight
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Re: Re: Silverlight and Firefox
Dec 21, 2008 12:47 PM | LINK
Hello swildermuth,
thanks for your answer. But I have to say that it doesn't work too. Still the same banner:
(I don't know if it depends on the language options of your browser what text is shown, so if you see "Installieren Sie Microsoft Silverlight" it means "Please install Microsoft Silverlight".)
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Squall
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Re: Re: Re: Silverlight and Firefox
Dec 21, 2008 01:23 PM | LINK
Hi Squall90,
the site http://www.outdoorchanneloutfitters.tv/ is correctly visualized in my machine using Internet Explorer and Chrome, have you tried to reinstall the Silverlight plug-in?
Thanks,
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Squall90
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Silverlight and Firefox
Dec 21, 2008 02:04 PM | LINK
Hi davidezordan,
it's a bit funny.. In Firefox it shows me that banner and in my Internet Explorer (still version 6) there is just a grey box. (Do you want to see a screenshot of it?)
Yes, I already have reinstalled it. More than one time but it didn't help.
If Silverlight works for you quite good, can you tell me your system specifications? Maybe it depends on an patch or update of Windows?
Thanks,
Squall
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Silverlight and Firefox
Dec 21, 2008 02:25 PM | LINK
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Silverlight and Firefox
Dec 22, 2008 02:06 AM | LINK
Hi,
I am having the same issue with Firefox - I always get the "Install Silevrlight 2" banner. It works fine in IE 7.
My FF is 3.0.5 and I already have SL 2.0.31005.0 plug-in installed.
So far it has been quite a drag using SL2 - there is just too much aggravation:
How is it supposed to be better than Flash if it is still so unmanageable? I am totally new to Silverlight and so far I am not very excited about having to deal with another raw architecture that reminds me so much about the messy and convoluted OLE/COM development days.
Sigh :(
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Re: Silverlight and Firefox
Dec 25, 2008 06:08 AM | LINK
Hi Squall ,
You can try to check the plug-ins or extensions that you are using in FireFox, maybe some of them can cause the silvelight does not work on Firefox, try to disenabled them.
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Squall90
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Re: Re: Silverlight and Firefox
Dec 27, 2008 11:31 AM | LINK
Thanks for your answer. I checked my Addons and it's just the standard things, AdBlockPlus and Flash.
I tried to reinstall Silverlight. I deinstalled Silverlight, rebooted my PC and tried to install again. Now I got an error, that my processor aren't supported. (http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/help.aspx?errorID=1503)
I cannot understand this because my processor aren't too old.
I have an AMD Athlon KuDoz 7.
Anybody know about this issue?
Thanks,
Squall
Squall90
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Re: Re: Re: Silverlight and Firefox
Dec 30, 2008 10:27 PM | LINK
Okay, I have the answer now. It is the cpu which doesn't support SSE. It really suprises me, because I thought it do.
But I have to say: If Microsoft really want to create a replacement for Flash they should do a lot of things. Bring the support also for old PCs, not just for that ones where you can use Vista AND run a program at once.
Thanks for your support!