302198 - open with dropdown menu does not contain proper application

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 313064

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[ssperte]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050723 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050723 Firefox/1.0+

When clicking on the audio speaker icon at the right hand menu bar to "listen to
the verse of the day" the window comes up "you have chosen to open
BibleGatewayAudio.smil which is smil 1.0 from http://www.biblegateway.com. What
should Deer Park do with this file?" which isa good thing. However, I can't
choose the proper application to open the file with, which is Windows Media
Player, because the only option in the dropdown menu is Quicktime Player
(default). Safari handles this automatically.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. on the URL, click on the audio speaker icon under the "verse of the day" in
the right hand menu bar
2. the file is downloaded and the file manager window pops up
3. choose the "open with" drop down menu to see that there are no other options

Actual Results:  
nothing. I finally went back to Safari to open and listen to the file on a daily
basis since the workaround (save to disk, manually open Windows Media Player,
then open and listen to the file from within the application) was too time
consuming and tedious.

Expected Results:  
given me the option of more applications to choose from

Comment 1

[ssperte]

Note! The proper application to open this file is actually NOT Windows Media
Player but Real One Player. However, there are many files that I access which do
use Windows Media Player (see http://www.cyberqpons.com). So, why aren't I given
more choices than just Quicktime?

Comment 2

[luhmann]

I'm surprised this is listed as uncofirmed. It is a well known bug (on Mac
forums) that Firefox cannot properly handle Real Audio files. Attempting to open
a SMIL file will attempt to open it with QuickTime. It is impossible to select
"RealOne Player" which is the correct application to open such files. There are
no other alaternatives in the "open with dialog" and there is no way to change
it in the preferences. This is true for both Firefox 1.0.6 and 1.5 beta 1.

Please make this a higher priority item as it is a major usibility issue for Mac
users!

Comment 3

[Tim Olsen]

This is a dupe of 313064.  Please mark this bug as such.

If you want this bug fixed, please vote for bug 313064

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 313064 ***