I don’t remember when it started. Whenever I tried to open a web page with Flash embedded, Quicktime always tried to play it but ended up displaying a broken blue icon where the flash was supposed to show up. However IE worked on it well [ I hate to say that ].

Macromedia Flash plug-in was properly installed and today I reinstalled Quicktime again. The problem still existed. I knew I should try reinstalling Firefox, but since I had so many extensions that I just didn’t want to bother.

Any comments? Solutions? Thanks in advance. Or if I figure this out, I”ll post it here myself.

Update: I fixed it. Everything works fine now. Thanks to Chris’ thread “View flash files in Mozilla Firefox“.

1. Close Mozilla Firefox completely (File > Exit)l
2. Open QuickTime.
3. Edit > Preferences > QuickTime Preferences.
4. Select “Browser Plug-in” from the drop-down list.
5. Click on the button that says “MIME Settings”.
6. Expand the “Miscellaneous” file format section by clicking on the “+” on the left.
7. Uncheck “Flash file”.
8. Click “Apply” and then “OK”.
9. Close QuickTime.
10. Open Mozilla Firefox.