Closed Bug 491487 Opened 16 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Fall back to plugins for inputs with natively handled MIME type and unsupported format

Categories

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Audio/Video: Playback
Version:
1.9.1 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: msridhar, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4 See Bug 475110 comment 4, Bug 475110 comment 7, and Bug 475110 comment 12. Without the fall-back behavior, the behavior of sites using non-standard .wav files (like certain web-based voice mail systems) will regress compared to Firefox 3.0. The URL gives an example of such a .wav file. Reproducible: Always
Component: General → Video/Audio
Product: Firefox → Core
Version: unspecified → 1.9.1 Branch
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Mac OS X → All
Hardware: x86 → All
QA Contact: general → video.audio
Component: Audio/Video → Audio/Video: Playback
Falling back to plug-ins will increase platform fragmentation.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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