TV-FOX

Friday, Jun 25, 2010

Watch over 2,500 television channels sorted by country and category. Free news, sports, movies and other entertainment broadcast from your browser.

Editor’s Note: TV-FOX is currently undergoing a review by our editor team to ensure that their latest update meets our standards. Until then, TV-FOX is Experimental, which means that only the adventurous should try it out. We’ll update this post as needed.

TV will always be my most persistent vice. So I really had a blast getting to know TV-FOX.

The actual experience was reminiscent of watching the tiny TV that occupied a forgotten corner at my family’s beach house. A wad of tinfoil tethered to the end of thick metal rabbit ears made efforts to boost reception, but if you’d been stung by a jellyfish or otherwise forced to stay inside, that TV could be your saving grace. You chose from two channels broadcast out of the closest Gulf Coast town, and while the topics were varied, that TV always took the edge off the sting.

To be fair, my TV-FOX experience was daytime viewing, and it actually has thousands of channels—more than 2,500. It’s the eclectic experience that reminded me of that childhood TV. So although TV-FOX is not quite like what you get with a satellite dish, it’s thoroughly enjoyable.

My favorite program was “Astro TV – Germany”. I got to watch a tarot card reading in German. I found it under “Lifestyle” TV.

When installing TV-FOX I discovered that I didn’t have the Windows Media Player plugin, but I was able to download it easily. Once you’re done with installation, you’ll see two icons in your browser, near the address window. The icons look like…TVs:

The second TV lists viewing options by category:


You can watch four channels at once (our beach house TV never did that!):

TV-FOX is perhaps part of a modern miracle. Who could have dreamed we’d watch TV right from our browser? Try it out and see for yourself.

Post from Elise Allen, who always tunes in to Mad Men and Breaking Bad. See all posts by Elise Allen.

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  1. echan1224@yahoo.com

    Doesn’t work on Mac at all. Keep asking a Widow’s only plug-in or just a small black screen…
    Please check for a better solution, nice try though.

    June 25th, 2010 at 7:54 pm

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  2. Wayne

    Will this work on a Mac?

    June 25th, 2010 at 9:25 pm

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  3. siva

    i using java script page. that page have timer (5 min). i disconnect the internet.. but the firefox browser, after 5 min automatically load the page and display the server not found message. i need to stay that page.. what can i do…

    June 25th, 2010 at 11:05 pm

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  4. samiraljohani

    Great work. Keep it up.

    June 26th, 2010 at 3:37 am

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  5. Ed Keith

    Downloaded the add-on and the plug-in. I tried a dozen stations and most were off line. The ESPN station just showed a frozen picture of very low quality resolution. IMHO this add-on is a bust. I will continue trying to use if for a little while longer but unless things improve dramatically, I will remove the add-on.

    June 26th, 2010 at 9:46 am

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  6. gyan

    sounds good but let’s see. i think as all the other products it will also rock

    thanks

    June 26th, 2010 at 10:53 am

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  7. gyan

    yahh thanks Elise Allen

    keep rockinggggg

    June 26th, 2010 at 10:58 am

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  8. Nayem al

    I am bangladeshi,in my country the speed of internate so short just like 25.00kbps.so i hope that you must create perfect solution to watching tv frequently in our country at a low speed

    June 26th, 2010 at 8:23 pm

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    1. Larry Holmes

      Be patient! A solution is being developed to make dial-up lines have much more bandwidth without changing the dial-up system hardware. It will at least enable you to improve your situation, though it will not match cable or DSL speeds.

      Have you looked into using a satellite modem? I believe there are a couple satellite systems available; one of them is from Microsoft, I believe, but I am not certain. Send me your email address and I will reply to you when I have something which may help.

      Good Luck!

      Larry Holmes
      LightSpeed Technologies

      July 1st, 2010 at 9:31 am

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  9. Vishal Kathiriya

    This is one of the most interesting feature provided by Mozilla among all other web-browsers…

    June 26th, 2010 at 10:39 pm

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  10. Manas

    Nice Design.

    June 28th, 2010 at 2:43 am

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  11. Daniel Amaral

    Are you supporting MacOS X to watch TV on firefox?

    June 28th, 2010 at 3:50 am

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  12. jomama

    Asking around to those in the know, they tell me that one needs at least 8megs of bandwidth to watch streaming TV.

    I know it’s unusable with my 2meg service.

    June 28th, 2010 at 6:14 am

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  13. SECRET SO DONT ASK

    Nice design and the TV sounds sweet

    June 29th, 2010 at 7:12 am

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  14. Francesco

    mac users you may need to download flip4mac!

    June 29th, 2010 at 5:10 pm

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  15. Sidd

    The tv should work but it is not working

    June 30th, 2010 at 12:08 am

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  16. Dave

    i got an error message when i attempted to download TV Fox:

    Firefox could not install the file at

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/11200?src=rockyourfirefox

    because: Not a valid install package
    -207

    July 4th, 2010 at 6:43 am

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  17. Zubin

    Description says that it shows tv channels in our browser. i really need it badly, but it doesnt install. When i click on install the following error message is displayed-

    Firefox could not install the file at

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/11200?src=rockyourfirefox

    because: Not a valid install package
    -207

    Please please please tell me how to install it and what to do. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE IT WORK

    WAITING FOR A QUICK REPLY

    July 4th, 2010 at 11:48 am

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  18. joe

    Uninstalled as it takes you to some Live TV website that wants to force you to download some software and install some retarted inbox toolbar. no thanks I get enough spam as it is.

    July 6th, 2010 at 6:16 pm

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    1. Bubba Jones

      Thanks for posting this notice. Saved me the trouble of finding out myself.

      July 16th, 2010 at 10:26 pm

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  19. Merav Gil

    TV fox is a great addon, maybe the best.
    i liked the weekly updates. Thanks!

    July 12th, 2010 at 10:06 am

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  20. Albert

    I just started using this and it looks awesome to watch so many channels freely online. Will inform my friends too .. :-)

    July 12th, 2010 at 10:36 am

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  21. karan

    there is an error of207-not a valid install package, so please help me to sort out this.. with thanks

    July 15th, 2010 at 2:04 am

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  22. Matt

    I’m getting the same “invalid install package” message.

    July 15th, 2010 at 7:55 am

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  23. fred

    Not working too well on brand new iMac with Snow Leopard and Flip2Mac installed. Too bad. I did get a little audio from a French station, but that was it.

    July 18th, 2010 at 10:50 pm

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  24. gilbert

    get it from http://www.tv-fox.com

    cool extension. super. :-)

    July 19th, 2010 at 10:47 am

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  25. russell

    ohhhhhhhhhhhhh that looks cool

    July 23rd, 2010 at 1:50 am

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  26. Marco Savo

    Why would anyone create this page touting an add-on without including the word “Download” or “Visit the developer’s page” or “Get TV-FOX” ? That to me is imbecilic. You’re not being slick or cool by embedding the link in a paragraph.

    July 23rd, 2010 at 10:48 pm

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    1. Elise Allen

      Thanks Marco, That’s a fair point. Usually these posts have a big button “Get ___”. I believe we took that down for TV-FOX for now because we didn’t want users to rush ahead and use the add-on without reading the Editor’s Note at the top of the post:

      Editor’s Note: TV-FOX is currently undergoing a review by our editor team to ensure that their latest update meets our standards. Until then, TV-FOX is Experimental, which means that only the adventurous should try it out. We’ll update this post as needed.

      July 27th, 2010 at 3:16 pm

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  27. mmm

    So I guess the channels are the same free channels you get though any free tv site? Stuff like that German tarot reading mentioned. It never caught on with me when I tried it a few years ago…
    I mean, I expect you don’t get any “real” networks from the US, UK etc, right?

    July 24th, 2010 at 1:41 am

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  28. Joe

    I have a DSL connection. Most, out of about 30 stations that I tried connecting to this morning were offline. It’s Sunday and I even checked out the religious stations. You would think they’d be broadcasting today! It’s early morning in the U.S., so I also checked stations in other countries where it should be midday, but many there were “offline” too. This seemed promising at first, but in the end it seems like just a continuous stream of pop-up windows (the player) advertising tv-in-pc.com. The claim of thousands of available stations is a gross overstatement. I guess you get what you pay for, but I’m surprised that Firefox has this listed, for it really isn’t “rocking my firefox”!

    July 25th, 2010 at 4:47 am

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  29. Cheech

    does dis plug-in NOT work wit de Windows 7 OS?

    July 27th, 2010 at 8:16 pm

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  30. crystal

    how do you add it on there is no add on button HELP i want this add on now

    July 29th, 2010 at 8:25 pm

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  31. sam

    is it actualy live????? and how legal is it i mean i would have to pay good money just to watch my cypriot shows so i had to settle for ERT (thats greek). is it delaid by a day or sumthing?

    August 5th, 2010 at 3:24 am

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  32. Jim

    I don’t think this is a good app at all. The few stations I tried either didn’t work or didn’t show the right channel. The selection of stations from the US are all minor stations with a few exceptions, which didn’t work. And “minor” is being generous, as is “stations”. Some are just feeds from websites. I’ve already uninstalled this.

    August 14th, 2010 at 1:42 pm

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  33. Mandefu

    Seemingly, no-one has the same problem as I have: a small black screen for every channel. The link-icons work OK (facebook, tell a friend, delicious) but no channel. Are they blocked for Belgium?
    I got no answer to my Q on the ‘contact us’….link.
    Is the solution too simple for me to see?
    M

    August 16th, 2010 at 11:38 am

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    1. DirtyHippy

      I have the same exact problem as mandefu

      August 24th, 2010 at 10:28 am

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      1. myname

        I have that problem, too. Just black screens, but the ads and stuff work. Well, the Hulu thing worked, but ofcourse that isn’t streaming live, so I guess that might be what made that one able to work. I can’t even get USA stations, though. Not even stations from the state I live in. I’m going to continue to see if I can find a solution, because I would really like to use this.

        May 12th, 2011 at 9:28 pm

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  34. James M Singleton

    I like the addon Firesay. I am going to try this addon and see if I can get anything local.

    August 22nd, 2010 at 7:02 am

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  35. Arjun

    hopefully, it looks as if it’s something interesting.

    August 28th, 2010 at 11:19 pm

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  36. peggy

    Sounds like a great add-on, but, too many negative comments. I’ll wait.

    September 7th, 2010 at 5:45 pm

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  37. patrick

    Installed the add-on, installed the wmp plugin, still NOTHING. Just another bit of additional weight that now slows Firefox down when starting up even more. It took 10 minutes for my browser to appear onscreen after installing the plugin. Not one channel I have tried plays anything. Black popup window with the few toolbar buttons and that’s it. And big companies wonder why torrents, DVDRips, and Megavideo, etc., are still BIG. Give us what we want and we won’t have to go stealing it. If you claim to give us what we want, please make sure it WORKS!

    November 21st, 2010 at 4:12 am

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  38. patrick

    Is there any chance No-Script could be interfering with the operation of TV Fox? I run the No-script add-on.

    November 21st, 2010 at 4:17 am

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