![]() This is needed for Firefox to find the plug-in when it needs to run. As I found out today, it was just a minor detail in my computer’s configuration… A change in the configuration I think should have been made by the Silverlight installer: it fails to add the path to the Silverlight installation to my system’s path. I tried different configurations, suspected a clash with this or that SDK and uninstalled and reinstalled both Firefox and Silverlight multiple times. Of course, I could quickly Show this page in IE, but it bugged me nonetheless. They would simply remain blank or show a banner that links to the silverlight install page… which would tell me it was already installed. However, no pages using Silverlight (like nos.nl that features a Dutch online news and sports tv channel) and more recent, this interview with my hero Anders Hejlsberg) would ever work. Also, browsing about:plugins would report everything being in order. ![]() When going to the Microsoft Silverlight page at /getsilverlight, it would always nicely report that it was installed and had the newest version. Today, I finally found the solution here. With every upgrade of either Firefox or Silverlight I hoped that the issue was solved, but no. I never got the Silverlight plugin to work in Firefox. ![]() ![]() Another long-running issue on my dev machine solved today.
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