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Many thanks for that time consuming effort on my behalf Ronni! No I have not switched to El Capitan. But certainly there website coding is HTML5. Looks as if I have some movie grinding to do! Severin > On 16 Oct 2015, at 1:53 pm, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com > <mailto:ro...@mac.com>> wrote: > > Hi Severin, > > Are you running El Capitan 10.11? > The QuickTime plugin is no longer supported on OS X 10.11. > > Apple disables the QuickTime plug-in in 10.11. > > If the QT movies are the ones on Jenny’s website, I tried moving the disabled > “QuickTime Plugin.plugin” back into Internet Plug-Ins as below as a Test to > see if it would work... but unfortunately NO. > > I went to "/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Disabled Plug-Ins" and checked if > "QuickTime Plugin.plugin" was there, it was, so I moved it to > "/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ , restarted Safari and checked on Safari -> > Preferences -> Security -> Plug-in settings. > Then opened Safari, went to Jenny’s website tried to play ‘The Stream’ but no > go - still receive ‘Missing Plug-in’ click the -> to see message “This > webpage has content that requires the “QuickTime” plug-in etc > > I imagine it is to do with file handling via Safari and probably the move to > HTML5. > The developers of the sites have to change, doesn't look like the browsers > will change. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) > 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz > 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM > 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > > El Capitan OS X 10.11 > >> On 15 Oct 2015, at 5:29 PM, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au >> <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au>> wrote: >> >> I have just noticed that the QT movies in my own webpages will not play on >> my iMac. They are fine on my iPad. Safari says " plugin failure", >> Firefox requests activation of QT then plays and Chrome plays straight off. >> I have removed the plugin from DIVX after a recent upgrade. I am not sure >> how long this has been happening, only discovered by chance. >> Simple solution I am sure. >> Severin Crisp >> >> Sent from Sev's iPad > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> ____________________________________________________ Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au> ____________________________________________________
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