OneAndOneIs2

So I wanted to watch a Quicktime movie, but don't have the player installed.

So I go to get it from apple's website.

After staring at the page for a couple of minutes, I called Tina over for a sanity check. We clicked around a bit, and finally caved in and admitted defeat.

There's check-boxes for what you want to download - the Quicktime Player with or without iTunes. There's boxes about opt-in crap. There's a place for you to put your email address and location. There's a button to upgrade to the Pro player for thirty bucks. There's a link to the EULA.

What there doesn't seem to be is any button to click on to actually begin the download of the basic player.

Erm..?

***Update

Figured it out. It's a bizzare one. I have akamai.net banned by the Firefox extension Adblock Plus - no idea why, obviously they were serving up obnoxious content somewhere once.

Akamai are "a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery" and "Apple and Akamai announced a strategic partnership to build Apple's new media network, QuickTime TV" (Thanks, Wikipedia)

So ABP was preventing CSS, Javascript, and and a number of graphics from displaying on the page, because they were all sourced from akamai.net

Quite why Apple feel unable to host their own graphics & CSS for their own pages, I really don't know. But that's the reason for the problem.