Open Bug 322284 Opened 20 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Download Actions missing a great number of extensions

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Settings UI
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: kylepenner, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 In the Mac version of Firefox, only PNG and TIFF are listed under 'Download Actions,' although about:plugins reveals a great many more filetypes. I want to change the default behavior for mp3 files, which is currently playing through Quicktime, to downloading automatically. However, I cannot do this because mp3 is not listed in the Download Actions menu. Reproducible: Always
I confirm Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
That's because the default is to only show things for registered file extensions, which doesn't particularly work on an OS where file extensions are mostly meaningless. Workaround: use about:config to toggle the pref browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions to false, and everything on earth including audio/mp3 will show up.
Severity: major → normal
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Version: unspecified → Trunk
and for thunderbird ? the workaround don't works
(In reply to comment #2) I think the ideal solution would be to have an 'add' button.
Just I mention in bug 377075 having the default set this way makes no sense. It just ends up confusing us users and getting reported as a bug.
Severity: normal → S3
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