LiveCamNetwork Now Open To Firefox
(CyberSpace) September 13, 2005 - LiveCamNetwork.com and
it's brethren of 2much.net-powered live video chat sites are now
available to users of Firefox, the Mozilla browser currently
giving Internet Explorer a run for its money.
"The fix for Firefox to support Windows Media 9 has been
available for quite some time," said 2much head Mark Prince.
"But it was very hard to do for a lot of people, and we weren't
able to take on the extra support"
While not a simple click install, enabling the ActiveX control
for Media Player 9 on Firefox is a fairly painless procedure.
Users can read the tutorial at the Mozil
laZine forums or more detailed specifications in the Mozillazine
knowledge base.
Firefox is generally recognized as the safest of browsers, with
a staunch resistance to any browser/Windows-controlling program
surfers might encounter, especiailly via ActiveX, which is a
part of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Who, after all, hasn't opened a new browser and found their
homepage changed to "Porn for Librarians" or some such unwanted
website?
LiveCamNetwork, however, was blocking Firefox since many users
who might purchase time didn't understand why they weren't
getting video. Complaints would build up - and the chance for
chargebacks.
"Chargebacks are bad for the customer," said Prince. "Since the
billing company might decide to block your card because of it."
Consumers could find themselves unable to make a purchase on any
number of sites that billing company processes.
"But now that installing WM9 on Firefox is easier, we feel that
we no longer need to block Firefox from accessing
LiveCamNetwork.com," said Prince. "It was especially tough since
almost everyone in our office uses Firefox, but had to switch to
IE just to view our own sites."
The news is also good for affiliates of LiveCamNetwork, since
more surfers can now be referred to the site, whose chat
hostesses have turned it into a high-conversion, high-retention
goldmine.
2much.net and LiveCamNetwork
chat hostesses are currently among the featured players in the
Showcase docu-soap series Webdreams, "So I guess it
was about time that LiveCamNetwork was opened to Firefox."
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