210220 - Both Mozilla 1.3 and 1.4RC do not take notice of a change in the preferences of which Audio plug in to use.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 19118

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Swami NadaBrahmananda]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612

In Mozilla 1.3 and 1.4RC just downloaded and tested, the option to use a 
different plugin than Quick time to play the .MP3 files is ignored. Both 
Windows Media player and Real Player can be entered but have no effect.
My preference is to use the Real Player program to play MP3 files on the 
internet, because I can minimize the real player to the task bar in windows 
(Currently using Win-XP) and then click on a succession of audio sample files 
to hear them. This way, the sample files on the web page mentioned above are 
easy to peruse with no loss of the web page from the monitor screen.
Quick time is particularly a bad choice since one cannot minimise it, nor tell 
it to stay minimised whilst clicking on other sound files, both of which work 
well with Real Player. Even Windows Media Player insists on refreshing the 
screen with itself, which is annoying.

The web page referred to is one I have worked on and the music samples are 
about 60k each only and are referenced with A HREF commands.

Since I am able to tell IE6 and Opera to use real player to play MP3 files, I 
assume this is a bug.

Hope this helps. Please feel free to contact me at [e-mail] for 
further info or discussion.

Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to any web page using A HREF pointing to a sound file, thus requiring a 
download which would normally be played not saved, such as a MP3 sample.
2. After making sure that some other player than Quick Time is quoted in the 
Edit/preferences/helper applications for mp3 files, click on a link to an mp3 
file.
3. Notice that Quick time is started. Version 1.3 of Mozilla started to play 
the music immediately the download was complete. Mozilla 1.4 RC does not 
(another bug?). It waits for one to click on a play button.

Actual Results:  
Screen display overwritten by the Quick Time, mostly empty page and nothing is 
playing (in 1.4 Mozilla requires a click on a start button, 1.3 doesn't).

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have loaded the Real Player program realplay.exe (assuming that 
was entered in the helper applications section of Preferences).

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Dup of the bug on using a helper instead of a plugin as an option....

Comment 2

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Dupe of bug 87218?

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You can disable .mp3 in the quicktime settings
(systemcontrol/quicktime/Browser Plugin/Mime Settings )


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19118 ***