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WMP is going on Safari...

 It looks like Apple has listed our WMP Firefox plug-in on their Safari page… I sure hope they tested that scenario before they listed it… http://www.apple.com/safari/download/plugins.html

If anyone’s tried this and gotten it to work (or not), I’d be curious to hear!

Posted: Thursday, June 14, 2007 4:23 PM by errand

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vasudev said:

Yes i tried the WMP plugin for Firefox & it works in Safari too.

But, overall I am not impressed with Safari, nothing special. Apple, famous for its looks and design has nothing special, infact the interface is not good, has to improve a lot.

# June 14, 2007 11:50 PM

vasudev said:

One more thing i want to add, Apart from not-so-good interface design, its a memory hog.

Takes much memory as compared to other browsers.

# June 14, 2007 11:55 PM

errand said:

Thanks for the feedback, Vasudev. Good to hear the plug-in is working there. Our own trials the last few days haven't been as successful.

RE: Safari being a memory hog: I haven't looked at Safari's implementation, but I can say that when we were working on the Firefox plug-in, we noticed that the OCX was not freeing its memory after the host page closed. It ended up not being a bug of ours, but a design feature in Firefox where they keep the last 8 (I think?) pages cached in memory. When you're streaming video, this memory hit can get pretty big. Takes more memory, but makes the experience a bit more optimized. Not saying that's what's happening with Safari, but just saying it's probably worth looking at what they're doing with that memory before assuming it's just inefficient.

# June 15, 2007 1:38 PM
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