401269 - Cannot view *.SWF local files despite Shockwave Flash v9.0 r47 plug-in installed

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Tim Pointing]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071009 SeaMonkey/1.1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071009 SeaMonkey/1.1.5

With old Mozilla Suite, used to be able to play Shockwave movies (*.swf) (saved locally) with browser with ShockWave Flash plug-in installed. Now, with SeaMonkey, I'm asked what application to use to open the file...

The file "whatever.swf" is of type application/octet-stream (Shockwave Flash Object), and SeaMonkey does not know how to handle this file type.

Presumably, this is because the plug-in info line reads:

application/x-shockwave-flash 	Adobe Flash movie 	swf 	Yes

Since the MIME type doesn't match, this plug-in is not invoked. I can't find a way of telling SeaMonkey that *.swf files should be "
application/x-shockwave-flash" rather than "application/octet-stream"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save/create a local *.swf file
2. Try to use SeaMonkey to open
3. Observe infinite loop in trying to specify SeaMonkey as the application to use to open the file


Expected Results:  
SeaMonkey should be able to open the file using the Shockwave Flash plug-in

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Tim: Does this also happen with SeaMonkey 2 (though I think it would happen)? Also as far as I know the link between MIME type and file extension is done by Windows, not by SeaMonkey.

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

No response => incomplete