106151 - External applications launched differently than IE

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 86979

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Greg Gardner]

I don't know exactly how, but somehow external apps are launched differently
than IE. For a specific example, I have Winamp set to "enqueue as default
action". To set this in winamp, choose options/preferenced/File types then check
the "Enqueue as default action" checkbox in the lower right-hand corner. When I
click on m3u files in IE, it just adds the files to the winamp playlist (if
winamp is currently running). If I have an m3u file locally and I type "start
file.m3u" in an MSDOS window, it has the same behavior. Also, the same behavior
happens when I click on an m3u file in an Explorer local file-manager window.
But if I click on an m3u file in mozilla, it clears out the current playlist and
starts playing the first song in the m3u playlist! This is not good as I prefer
to have m3u playlists to append to my current playlist rather than clobber it.
So I'm not sure mozilla is launching winamp differently than Explorer/Internet
Explorer, but it is and I find it annoying. Thanks.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

file handling

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86979 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass verification of duplicate bugs: to find all bugspam pertaining to this, set
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if you think this particular bug is *not* a duplicate, please provide a
compelling reason, as well as check a recent *trunk* build (on the appropriate
platform[s]), before reopening.