466471 - Quicktime Object (midi file) Does Not Play as Local File

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Owen Leibman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

This midi file is local and plays on Windows XP in Opera and Safari
and even Mozilla (not updated in some time), but not in Firefox (3.0.4 - Quicktime is 7.5.5).
It plays in Vista in Opera, but not Safari or Firefox.
On the systems on which it does not play, a Q with a question mark is displayed, not the alternate text.
Note that the web site displays fine - the problem only shows up with local files.

Substituting application/x-mplayer2 for audio/x-midi, the file plays in all browsers (but there
is nothing wmp-specific).
When this page is accessed on a web site using http rather than file protocol,
the midi file plays in all browsers.
This seems to be able to be duplicated with all midi files - I haven't tested other media types.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download http://www.dayenu.com/test2/ff3qtbug.htm and dayenu.mid to local file.
2. "Open file" ff3qtbug.htm from file to which you've downloaded it.
3.
Actual Results:  
Browser displays Q with question mark, rather than either embedded object or alternate text.

Expected Results:  
Should have displayed embedded object, or, at least, the alternate text.

Comment 1

[Owen Leibman]

Attachment: html that fails in local mode (file: protocol)

Comment 2

[Owen Leibman]

Attachment: Midi file used by html

Comment 3

[Owen Leibman]

I have confirmed that this problem is limited to FF3; it works as expected in 2.0.0.18. Also, in case I wasn't clear above, it works ok even in FF3 when I access it through http://localhost/ff3qtbug.htm (using XAMPP in Windows), even though accessing same file through file: protocol doesn't work.

Comment 4

[d235j.1]

I can confirm this to happen with audio/mpeg and audio/x-mpeg as well.
This does not happen on Firefox for Mac, or any browser other than FF3
for Windows.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you still see this problem with newest version of firefox and quicktime?
(last bug comment was prior to 2010-08-29)

Comment 6

[Owen Leibman]

(In reply to comment #5)
> do you still see this problem with newest version of firefox and quicktime?
> (last bug comment was prior to 2010-08-29)

I'm afraid the bug persists. Firefox 3.6.8, QuickTime 7.67.75.0. Operating system, if it matters, is Windows XP SP3, with all updates applied.

Comment 7

[Owen Leibman]

Problem appears to be resolved in both Firefox 4 and Firefox 3.6.16 with Quicktime 7.69.80.9.

Comment 8

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

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