Closed Bug 137542 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Cannot run Windows Media Player as an helper application

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
General
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 132107

People

(Reporter: arudmik, Assigned: Matti)

Details

Microsoft has released Windows Media Player for MacOS X. This release of Media Player works as an application not as a plug-in. Unfortunately, Mozilla does not understand the preference setting (Helper Applications) for launching the media player as an application. here's what I provided in the preference setting: Mime Type: video/x-ms-asf Extension: asf, asx Handled By: Windows Media Player.app When I click on a link that should launch the Windows Media Player application (as it does in IE) the cursor shows that Mozilla is thinking for a second. After this I must quit Mozilla and relaunch because a number of things no longer work.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132107 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
This bug was unusual. It seems that the Windows media player installation program does not correctly install the Media Player plugin. Once I moved the plugin file manually into the Library/Internet Plugins folder I was able to launch the Media Player application. I did have to define the mime type as below.
Status: RESOLVED → CLOSED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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