[snip] > > Thanks. Mplayer is installed and working. I realize I was pretty > > unclear about this, now, but literal "plugins" work. That is, when > > something is embedded in the html page, mplayerplug-in plays it fine. > > It's when it's a direct link just to the file (whether .pdf, .wmv. > > .avi, .doc, or whatever) that Firefox doesn't handle it the way it > > says it will. What we used to call "helper apps" don't get offered up > > according to what Firefox says it will do. It says it will default to > > openoffice.org-1.9, but then it defaults to oowriter (1.1.3) instead. > > Does this sound like what you are seeing? > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151993 > > If visiting the "about:plugins" page makes direct links to .wmv (etc.) > files work for you, please add a comment to the above bug report. Good link, but no. Again, I was unclear at first. Plugins are actually working. It's my "default actions" that are broken. Thanks!
