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My gut feeling tells me that RealNetworks keeps maintaining Rhapsody as its main business direction.

You need it to listen to emissions on the website of the French public radio broadcaster Radio France.

My mother uses that, and the Real plugin breaks and requires a reinstall on every single Firefox update. Very annoying.

Neolander,

"My mother uses that, and the Real plugin breaks and requires a reinstall on every single Firefox update. Very annoying."

I have the nightly developer build of firefox which updates itself every day. And every single build of firefox breaks every single plugin, unless the author releases a plugin for that specific version it is automatically disabled by firefox.

Maybe there's a reason for this which I am not aware of? But my impression is that version controls are poorly engineered with regards to the way that firefox handles plugins. They should not be so fragile. If the API is compatible, the plugins should work regardless of version - I know you covered this in your OS papers.

To mozilla's credit they've put alot of work into the plugin auto upgrade mechanism, but if I were a plugin dev I'd be upset that plugins need to be updated so often in the first place.