293822 - Problem with Quicktime plugin and embedded MIDI files

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 279265

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Jim Sanfilippo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; {26ED1CA9-14A9-4159-8DEF-5FB476788E83}; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

I am trying to view a website with an embedded MIDI file and I am getting the 
message to "Click here to download plugin". The Plugin Finder Service window 
then displays and says the following plugins are available and shows a checkbox 
checked for Quicktime 6.5.1. If I then click Next, another window displays and 
says Apple Quicktime 6.5.1 is not available and there is a button to click for 
Manual Install. Clicking that button takes me to Apple where I have downloaded 
and installed the latest (version 6.5.2) version of Quicktime. When I go back 
to the Firefox browser and go to the same page where the embedded MIDI is, I 
get the same message to download the plugin and the same window displays 
regarding version 6.5.1 even though I have just installed 6.5.2. Does anybody 
know what I can do to get this corrected? I also tried to click the link at the 
bottom of the Plugin Finder Service window that says "Find out more about 
Plugins..." and when I go to that page and click on the link for Quicktime, I 
go to the same page I went to as described above. If I cannot view pages that 
contain embedded music, I do not see much use for this browser.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to any URL where there is an embedded MIDI file (as the URL above)
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
I get the window with the puzzle piece and the text to "Click here to download 
plugin".

Expected Results:  
Played the embedded MIDI file

Nothing special, but it works fine with IE

Comment 1

[Warner Young]

Reporter, I'm on a very slow network right now and can't get the URL to come up.
 However, you may want to check the following:

In the URL bar, type "about:plugins" and see if the right version Quicktime is
actually shown in the list of plugins.  If not, there's some configuration issue
with Quicktime that's causing Mozilla not to find it.  You may have to check
around some more for help on that.

If Quicktime IS shown, see if it shows as the plugin for MIDI files.  For
example, on my system, it shows this:

audio/mid 	MIDI file 	mid,midi,smf,kar 	Yes
audio/x-midi 	MIDI file 	mid,midi,smf,kar 	Yes
audio/midi 	MIDI file 	mid,midi,smf,kar 	Yes

If MIDI files aren't handled by Quicktime, go to your Control Panel and find the
Quicktime settings.  I think it's under their plugins settings page, and you'll
have to check the MIME filetypes to make sure Quicktime is actually set to
handle MIDI files.

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 279265 ***