271598 - Quicktime MP3 playback locks Firefox browser

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Marc J. Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

Seems similar to bug 265140.  When Quicktime loads to play an MP3, Firefox 
becomes unresponsive.

QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1

My default .mp3 handler is Windows Media Player

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
2. Scroll down to version 3.5 and click on "MP3 version of song (5:21 minutes, 
9.7MB)"

Actual Results:  
Firefox shows Quicktime logo and locks up.  Can only be shut down using 
Windows "End Task" feature.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should play MP3 using Windows Media Player

Comment 1

[Marc J. Miller]

Behavior unchanged in build:
 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/1.0

Comment 2

[Nagappan]

WFM (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10)

Comment 3

[francismangion]

I've experienced a similar problem playing a Quicktime MOV file in Firefox 1.0.
The file (located on the site http://www.obetv.co.uk/) started playing, then
hung (causing the speakers to hold the last note received) and caused Windows
2000 itself to become unresponsive. The only remedy available (as the keyboard
locked up) was to switch the computer off at the mains and reboot Windows. This
may of course be due in part to bad design of a specific website, but as it
crashed the whole OS, I thought you'd better be told about it.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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