Hi all,

I have the similar request too.

Btw, I'm thinking of the reason why silverlight is not made compatible with other browser?which means to make it a cross-browser plugin. If it's going to compete int he market, a cross-browser approach would make the adoption rates growing very high in a short time. Just my two-cent.

I dont think any developer would like to hear complaints from people and customers telling them their apps doesn't work just because they use Silverlight, while the customer might not be only using IE but other browser too. Imagine their customers' clients are using more variety of browsers, I can't imagine how serious the problem would be.

Hmm, I think I'm not that exaggerate here, am I? :p

Ok, hopefully someone come out with a solution asap =)

Thanks.

Regards,
Jenson

henrik32259:

Any way to make the plugin work in Firefox 3 beta 3 ?

I heard that Silverlight will be supported in FF 3 when FF3 is released.

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mchlSync:

henrik32259:

Any way to make the plugin work in Firefox 3 beta 3 ?

 

I heard that Silverlight will be supported in FF 3 when FF3 is released.

 

Hmm, that would be great. But I heard that they will realease a Firefox 3 beta 5, before they will finally release the Firefox 3. I'm looking forward for it and hopefully it would support Silverlight pretty well. Wish to create web app with SIlverlight support which is cross-browser, so that everyone is able to view the content the same way as the other can see in Internet Explorer.

Cheers,
Jenson

Silverlight still does not work with Firefox 3 and this matter deserves attention. Yes I am aware that this browser has not been released yet, but it is in the final stages of development (Tree is entering lockdown for Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1).

NOW would be the time to get Silverlight working!

As a developer working with Silverlight 2, I cannot test our software on alternative browsers and it is no longer a realistic solution to force all users to use Internet Explorer. If Silverlight 2 launches without working on Firefox 3 it will be hard for developers or anyone else of a rational disposition to believe that Silverlight is viable solution for anything other than an "Exclusively Microsoft Powered" system.

 Please allow me to be off-topic a while. Yes, allow me to digress a fair bit. It's actually the same for Apple iPhone SDK, which is only available for developers using MAC computers or notebooks. Well, this is another kind of proprietory act and it should not be allowed. Do they only want iPhone to use only on Mac platforms? If iPhone supports different OS, why not for the SDK?

Well, back to the topic, same thing applies to Silverlight, if it forced people to develop Silverlight which works smoothly and seamlessly on IE, and not pretty well running on other browser, it really doesn't make sense for a developer to only restrict him-/herself to Windows OS and Internet Explorer. Noawadays, developers are mostly cross-platform, means that they don't only develop for applications or web running solely one one OS or one device. It should make sense to them that, they are developers, and not users, everything should be transparent to developers. It doesn't make sense for developers to own multiple devices and computers to develop just because they are not working on other platform or other devices. They should be assured that, regardles of whether certain technologies only work on certain devices or environment, developers should be able to develop on whatever setup or computers they are using, remember, do not assume that developers are rich, even though that might be the case, do not assume every developers are the same too. Not all developers can earn a fortune there. In fact, I don't think so.

I did write to them, but they just reply me with something like, they will send my feedbacks on this issue to their development team, and let them decide. So end of the day, it's still the same, Visual Studio, Silverlight still must be developed on Windows Platform, iPhone and iPod Touch apps have to be developed on Mac OS, crazy.. Imagine I have to own so many computers, or multiboot it and acquire so many different OS licenses. 

Would people stick back to Adobe after all these of messy complications around? Flash? Flex? AIR? Thermo is coming out, which is very powerful. They support Linux development too. Not to forget the OpenMoko, the open source mobile OS for PDA and smart devices. Well, open source, though still falling behind, but they are catching up fast. If MS and Apple are still thinking to make business the old way, they are only contributing more to the Open Source development, which I'm quite happy to see since I've always been very disappointed with MS and Apple. Both of them are really like brothers. 

Time to wake up, though their technologies are matured and easy to pick up and use, Linux developments are equally easy and in fact more user friendly, only thing is you have to know how to use terminal commands, btw, those coming from the days of MS DOS should have no problem with it, not to mention those having background with UNIX.

Well, please fix the silverlight on Firefox, it keeps on crashing my Firefox, I have to keep on restarting it and always send critical error reports (which I think does not help much, but I still keep on sending to irritate the development team to do somehting). And I end up having my notebook slowed down terribly whenever I visit Silverlight enabled sites. Geesh..

Regards,
Jenson

g.k.:

As a developer working with Silverlight 2, I cannot test our software on alternative browsers and it is no longer a realistic solution to force all users to use Internet Explorer. If Silverlight 2 launches without working on Firefox 3 it will be hard for developers or anyone else of a rational disposition to believe that Silverlight is viable solution for anything other than an "Exclusively Microsoft Powered" system.

Firefox 3 has made some changes with how objects are instantiated that doesn't work with the currently released Silverlight.js. For testing purposes, you should be able to display your Silverlight content directly with an object tag, until a new Silverlight.js comes out.

I read your message here about a month ago, but thanks for posting it again since it is relevant to this thread.

Silverlight can work on Firefox 3 but only for a few seconds:
If I strip my project down to a basic HTML page with a single Silverlight control - it loads. However its not exactly usable, even if I refresh the page Firefox crashes. It is so unusable that it is near impossible to even test a page, I get one load and one javascript call out of it before it crashes. If anyone has had anymore success than I did, I would like to hear how you did it.

IHey Now,

 I'm amazed when I was using Firefox 3 official version I was unable to view pages with Silverlight, then with IE i was able too view the pages. Also in Safari I'm unable to view the Silverlight pages as well.

 I thought Silverlight was cross browser?

any inforamtion on the is appreciated.

Thx,

Catto

Catto

It should work now, Silverlight 2 beta 2 works in Firefox 3. Obviously not all Silverlight websites work for other reasons, but the plug-in does work.

Try reinstalling the plug-in.