238081 - Hang when requesting sample from allofmp3

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 237947

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter Daum]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

When requesting a sound sample from allofmp3, mozilla 1.7b
gets stuck in an infinite loop.
(Older mozilla versions are o.k.)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. goto http://www.allofmp3.com/
2. click on any album to get a detail view of that album
3. click on any of the speaker symbols to request a sound preview
4. in the popup window, click once more on the speaker icon

Actual Results:  
mozilla 1.7b gets stuck in an infinite loop


Expected Results:  
Download of sound file,
start of some application for playing the sound file


I verified that the bug still occurs when using straight mozilla 1.7b
distribution without any customization and with a fresh profile

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

WFM, Linux.
dialog said mozilla didn't know how to handle the URL, that content was of type
audio/x-mpegurl, and it offered to start with default app (Realplayer9/RealONE
player) or to savet to disk. Selecting default player started RP9 as standalone
player

What is your player for audio/x-mpegurl? (look in moz helper apps or .mailcap)

Comment 2

[Peter Daum]

... it looks like the mime handling of mozilla changed between 1.6 and 1.7b:

I had a .mailcap file floating around, which contained entries of friendly
programs that know better what is good for me (I had once tried realplayer9
which obviously puts entries in there). The mozilla profile says that "xmms"
should be used for "audio/x-mpegurl". Mozilla 1.6 obviously doesn't worry
about the ".mailcap" entry and uses its own configuration, so everything
works fine.

In 1.7b, the preferences dialog ("Helper applications") also suggests that
x-mpegurl was opened by "xmms". For some reason, it seems to get confused
by the ".mailcap" setting anyway. When I delete the bogus .mailcap file,
it starts xmms, as configured.

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

Yes.. i think there's a bug here somewhere. (But Mozilla DOES honor .mailcap
files - it actually searches there first, see bug 221042)

I saw a similar hang to what you describe after upgrading a Linux PC from 1.6 to
1.7b, regarding .doc files, where the filetype is described both in helper apps
as well as .mailcap

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 237947 ***