Firefox should not affect the active desktop. I run FF, IE and Opera and still can use the active desktop. Right Click on the desktop and select properties. Go to the Web tab and make sure that "Show Web content on my Active Desktop" is checked. To b...
You probably have it set up to expand your desktop onto the tv, you will need to drag your movie windows from your laptop desktop to the tv desktop, or you could change your display settings to mirror your desktop on the tv. How you do this is differ...
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