On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 11:04 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 09:45 +0000, John Austin wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 02:58 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 16:50 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 08:22 -0800, oldman wrote: > > > > > The only things that will show up in that box are items that were not > > > > > configured with a plug-in. for instance the first time I clicked on a > > > > > .torrent file Firefox asked me what to do with the file ... I selected > > > > > to use azureus and clicked a button to always use azureus and then the > > > > > .torrent was associated with azureus and showed up in that window. I > > > > > have not (yet) found a way to change one that was configured via > > > > > plugin, > > > > > but I suspect that if I removed the plugin and then attempted to click > > > > > on the filetype Firefox would then show me the requester and I could > > > > > then edit the app to use. (don't know what would happen if I > > > > > reinstalled > > > > > the plugin > > > > > > > > > I wish the above was true but it is not. If you remove a plugin firefox > > > > just does not know what to do and with a plugin as I noted in a separate > > > > post it sometimes does the wrong thing. > > > > > > Aaron, which version of Firefox are you using?? Ric > > > > > > -- > > > ================================================ > > Is this the secret you are looking for ? > > > > Not sure where I found it - this list I think > > > > "In the past, you could tell mozilla how to handle a media file. They > > changed in Firefox, but there's a way to bring that feature back. In > > Firefox, type about:config at the url and find > > > > browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions > > > > Double click on it to set it to false. Then under > > Edit->Preferences->Downloads you should see all the media types and > > (theoretically) you could change the player. I didn't mess with that but > > it might just be the feature we want." > > > > John > That is certainly an appropriate secret with 2 provisos: > 1. the about:config under FC4 (version 1.0.8) has no such option. > 2. In FC5 and FC6 (verison 1.5.0.9 of firefox) has this entry in > about:config and it does what you indicate. However there is no plugins > tab so one can't choose plugins for audio for example . > > Another thing is it makes it obvious that the plugins in the various > plugin directories are not as important as the contents of mozplugerrc. > You helped a great deal but a mystery still remains. It is emarassing to have to keep posting corrections. Well a mystery remains but not the mystery I mentioned. I found the pluggins secti9on of Downloads but on my FC5 machine for audio input the list ways use the Windows Media Player Plugin . Well were did a Windows Media Player Plugin come from. Anyway I fixed the audio stream but now I have fouled up the video stream. I used to be able to play mpg files and the video from www.cnn.com not I can't. Also I can no way to change the plugin the stream uses. So a mystery still exists. Why does the plugin for video and audio/video streams go to RealPlayer 9 when it is the Realplayer 10 plugins that are installed. It is a mystery. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
