266719 - browser.download.finished_sound_url uses default sound, not defined sound.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[S.A. Birl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

I populated my user.js with the browser.download.finished_sound_url option:
user_pref("browser.download.finished_sound_url",
"N:\\sbirl\\aim95\\Sounds\\Ogpissd5.wav");

No matter what sound I choose on any drive, the default system sound is used.

This preference is copied to the prefs.js file.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open either user.js or prefs.js
2. create a new entry
user_pref("browser.download.finished_sound_url", "Drive:\\path\\to\\sound.wav");
3. restart Mozilla
4. download something.

Actual Results:  
I hear a "bing" when the download completes.

Expected Results:  
I expect to hear a WarCraft II two-headed ogre.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Um.. The preference is a URL, clearly named to indicate this.  You're not
putting in a URL.  You're putting in a filepath.

I have no idea why you're editing this by hand instead of using the preferences
dialog either...

Comment 2

[S.A. Birl]

1) Just because it says URL as part of the variable, doesnt mean it's limited 
   to strictly URLs. 
   Case and point: 
user_pref("editor.history_url_0", "file:///N:/sbirl/bookmarks.2002.htm"); 
user_pref("privacy.popups.sound_url", "N:\\sbirl\\AdSubtract\\Human\\popup.wav"); 
 
 
  But I changed it to a URL anyway: 
user_pref("browser.download.finished_sound_url",
"http://concept.temple.edu/Ogpissd5.wav"); 

I even changed it to 
user_pref("browser.download.finished_sound_url",
"file:///N:/sbirl/aim95/Sounds/Ogpissd5.wav");
 
Still uses the default system sound. 
 
 
2) Where, oh prey tell, in preferences dialog is there an option to set the  
   sound for the download manager? 
   I searched the whole dialog box and found nothing. 
   AFAIK, this setting was a hidden feature.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Just because it says URL as part of the variable, doesnt mean it's limited to
> strictly URLs. 

Actually, yes, it does.

>   Case and point: 
> user_pref("editor.history_url_0", "file:///N:/sbirl/bookmarks.2002.htm"); 

Which is a URL...

> user_pref("privacy.popups.sound_url",
> "N:\\sbirl\\AdSubtract\\Human\\popup.wav"); 

Which is NOT a url.

> Where, oh prey tell, in preferences dialog is there an option to set the  
> sound for the download manager? 

Preferences > Downloads.  Check "play a sound", click the "browse" button, and
browse for the file.  It looks like this UI has been added after 1.7.  I hadn't
realized quite how new it was.

Comment 4

[S.A. Birl]

Attachment: Mozilla 1.7.3 preferences box.

This version of Mozilla does not have an option to pick a sound.
I found the option via Preferential.

Comment 5

[S.A. Birl]

Birl> user_pref("privacy.popups.sound_url",
"N:\\sbirl\\AdSubtract\\Human\\popup.wav");

Boris> Which is NOT a url.

<sarcasm>
And yet that particular preference still works as expected!  How odd!
</sarcasm>

Regardless, it does not work after trying 3 different values.


As for the preferences box, see the attachment.  It does not exist in my 
1.7.3 browser.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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