Last night I have been digging on how to embed wmv file in firefox. I was not able to see the video in firefox although I could see that in IE. Firefox was not displaying the embeded wmv video.

So I tried many ways and finally this one worked for me.

<object id=”player”>
<param name=”AutoStart” value=”true”>
<param name=”URL” value=”http://www.kita-o.com/news2006/Lew Tabackin.wmv”>
<param name=”uiMode” value=”full”>
<embed src=”http://www.kita-o.com/news2006/Lew Tabackin.wmv”name=”player” width=”420″ height=”366″ type=”video/x-ms-wmv-plugin” pluginurl=”http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia” allowchangedisplaysize=”1″ autosize=”1″ displaysize=”1″ showcontrols=”1″showstatusbar=”1″ autorewind=”1″ autostart=”1″>
</embed>
</object>

1) Firebug : Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. It also shows the javascript errors if any.

2) Web Developer Toolbar : Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. It has various options which the developers will love to use.

3) Colorzilla : With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes.

4) IE Tab : This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.