This comes as a surprised move from Microsoft. All these while it prefers its users to use Internet Explorer for all web browsing activities, but now it’s lending a helping hand to Windows 7 users that insist on using Firefox for some unknown and mysterious reasons.

The company has just released a plug-in that gets around Firefox’s current limitations in handling H.264-encoded videos on HTML5 pages by taking advantage of the H.264 support built into Windows 7. On a more technical level, that means the plug-in parses HTML5 pages and replaces the Video tags with a call to the Windows Media Player plug-in, which then allows the content to be played right in the browser. Well, at least they’re promoting Windows Media Player. Head to the source and get yours downloaded.

SOURCE via Microsoft