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Yep, that fixed it for me. Note that I also had to remove a second "plugin" environmental variable before it worked, and that it's also necessary to fully uninstall and reinstall (at least in my case).

sws, did you submit a bug report?

1.0 Songbird added GStreamer support, yes? So I assume we have conflicting classpaths / versions?

Is there any bug logging happening on this problem? This seems like more than enough documentation to me, although the exact parameters of the bug aren't entirely known.

Yeah, for sure -- likewise, profiles have nothing to do with it. I still think it's a DEP problem. On Vista SP1 here -- you, too, Tim?

Same problem here. Cleaning out all the AppData folders, uninstalling entirely, rebooting, and reinstalling still doesn't work. I suspect something going on with Data Execution Pro--tection or whatever that P stands for.

Here's the crash report following my clean install:
http://crashreports.songbirdnest.com/...

Peter

I had had exactly this problem with Firefox + Twhirl. (That is, Twhirl was opening IE) Tried doing all the steps above *then* and it worked... now changing the defaults via Windows again, even after reboot, seems not to have any impact. I still get Firefox, not Chrome.

Well, I'm an author and publisher, so I understand the development costs. But the difference is, much like consuming electronic music, I expect to purchase *more* PDF versions. And having seen what happens to book consumption suffering in the paper distribution channels, I could believe niche titles would do far better in digitalland. I don't think my paper consumption is actually likely to go down at the same time, either. I want my Java references (Hello, Java in a Nutshell) in print form, for instance -- but I might stock up on some other references in bulk.

Maybe a six pack?

And how does all this fit into Safari? To me, Safari remains the better deal for bulk. But I agree, DRM-free PDF is really what it's about to me. I'd be willing to a monthly fee but be guaranteed a bargain price on a PDF or two a month.

I'm really pleased that O'Reilly is taking this on.