Dang. Cant believe I didn't try IE11.
I can get the live video feed now in IE11.
Not sure how to check/set the exceptions list in Java for Firefox ....
And now that I see the little icons in the upper left corner (see the screenshot image from my previous post) I futzed with them and disabled firefox from blocking the insecure content and I allowed the server to run plugins under Java on my machine (with frightening warnings about this being insecure). I want to think this is safe since it is all within my network but I have a feeling if some-one hacks the camera and it is allowed to run Java plugins on my machine, its going to suck.