496551 - Ogg files should not be played in browser when being clicked (or at least make it optional)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 498523

(Core :: Audio/Video, enhancement)

Description

[Johannes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4

If I click an OGG file, I don't want it to play in the browser. This is the reason why I already disabled the Quicktime plugin (when I still had quicktime on my computer) - I don't want audio files being played in the browser as long as they're not wrapped in an <audio> tag - Firefox is not a media player, it's a browser! So, either offer a download window when clicking on an .ogg file or at least make this behaviour optional.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a website that has a direct link to an ogg file (f.e. http://lpchip.com/modplug/viewtopic.php?t=1515)
2. Click on the .ogg link
3. Watch the .ogg music being played in your browser!
Actual Results:  
Plays it in the browser

Expected Results:  
Showing the file download dialog

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

It's optional for the website, the site can always send the file with a content-disposition:attachment header and it's of course optional for you, too
Just right click on the file and select save linkt target

>Firefox is not a media player
With the html <audio> and <video> tags this is wrong.
A Browser is a HTML viewer, a JS enviroment, an Image viewer, a Text viewer and now also a media player

Comment 2

[Johannes]

However, using the right-click is impossible if you only get a link to the file, and you cannot really force every server admin to configure they directories so that all files are sent as attachments (if that's even possible).

>With the html <audio> and <video> tags this is wrong.
>A Browser is a HTML viewer, a JS enviroment, an Image viewer, a Text viewer and
>now also a media player
Well, what is a media player with absolutely NO control worth? I have a blank page with sound. I can't pause it, I can't skip, I can do nothing. Really sub-par if you ask me...