467130 - Totem plug-in is used for MP3 audio, despite “Always Ask” in Preferences → Applications

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 480242

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

I prefer to download MP3 audio files instead of playing them in the browser, so I have MP3 audio set to “Always Ask” in Preferences → Applications.

But when navigating to an MP3 file, Firefox renders the file with the Totem (video player) plug-in, instead of showing the usual dialogue box.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Ensure the Totem plug-in is enabled
2. Preferences → Applications: set MP3 audio to “Always Ask”
3. Load an MP3 file as normal

This is using latest-trunk on Ubuntu 8.10, with Ubuntu's default Totem plug-in (2.24.3).

Workaround: disable the plug-in.

Comment 1

[Robert Claypool]

That sounds like the same problem I'm having where I changed all MPEG-4 from QuickTime Plug-in to the QuickTime player and it still wants to use the plug-in. Disabling the plug-in means that the file won't open.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-189January--IAP--2007/LectureNotesandVideo/detail/embed03.htm

http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.189IAP07/ocw-6.189-iap07-lec02_300k.mp4

Workaround: Run QuickTime player and then copy the URL to it.