191546 - let me specify helper apps and plugins separately

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement)

Description

[Jamie Zawinski]

When I click on a *link* to a .mpg file, I want to run an external application.

When a web page uses <embed> to include an .mpg file, I want to run a plugin.

As far as I can tell, there's no way to accomplish this.

The reason I want this is, I usually want to look at mpegs in an external
program like xine or mplayer, since those let me resize the window, or run
full-screen.  But those don't work as plugins, so when a page demands that the
video be swaddled in HTML, I want to use the Quicktime plugin (via the Crossover
meta-plugin.)

Right now, if the Crossover/Quicktime plugin is installed, it *always* uses that
to display mpegs, even when I'm clicking on a link to a .mpeg file in a
directory listing.  So it always loads it in the non-resizable postage stamp
plugin window inside the Mozilla window.

Perhaps there's some way to get Mozilla to do what I want, but I can't find it...


Linux 2.4.9-13smp #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 19:06:50 EST 2001 i686 unknown
Mozilla 1.2
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021203

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

see also bug 188840

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 205167 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

With the deprecation of non-Flash plugins, I don't think this tracks much useful any more.