Closed Bug 358468 Opened 18 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Firefox 2.0 for Mac doesn't recognize real media .smil files.

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

2.0 Branch
PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

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RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: mouthbreather76, Unassigned)

References

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Details

(Whiteboard: CLOSEME 07/14)

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Firefox attemps to open .smil files with quicktime player. It does not give you the option to open the files with a different program. Further you cannot add file types to the list of extensions that firefox recognizes (in preferances/content/manage file types.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to npr link
2.Attempt to open any audio file on the site.


Actual Results:  
Popup ask what app you would like to open the file. Quicktime is the only option.

Expected Results:  
Allow me to add the .smil file extension to the list of recognized extensions. Or allow me to choose an app from the popup.
Severity: major → normal
Version: unspecified → 2.0 Branch
Component: Build Config → File Handling
QA Contact: build.config → file.handling
Severity: normal → major
Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!
Whiteboard: CLOSEME 07/14
There has been no more recent action on this bug. Reporter, if you still still experience this bug in more recent builds of Firefox, please feel free to come back and reopen it. Thanks.

-> WORKSFORME
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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