123158 - Helper applications failure

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 116027

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Loren Williams]

I assigned the mime type video/quicktime to be handled by xine in
Preferences->Navigator->Helper Applications.  However, when trying to use view a
quicktime movie from cnn.com, the browser insists that a plugin be present for
the movie to play.  It is possible that this check is done by CNN's site and not
mozilla, but if this were true, it would be nice to have plugin emulation - i.e.
have the browser tell other sites "Sure, I have the flash/quicktime/whatever
plugin." so that Mozilla users can view these files in other programs that do
support their viewing.  The version of Mozilla that I'm using is 0.9.7.  Keep up
the good work.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

That can't work.
Please copy the quicktime plugin into mozilla's plugin folder.
A plugin can do many things that a helper app can't do.

-> invalid

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

um...

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "Handle <embed> and <object> with helpers if no plugin is available"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116027 ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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