On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 18:29 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 19:20, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > 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> > > I'm probably going back over old ground here, but the Windows Media plugin > should be one of the plugins you get when you have Mplayerplugin installed. > You also get quicktime, and realmedia plugins with it, and some others. > > The realmedia one is earlier than Realplayer10GOLD.bin, so it may be worth > checking all the places where plugins are installed, and removing any that > end in "rm". > > Sorry if you've already tried this. > > Nigel. > Tried that with no success. -- ======================================================================= Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. -- Ogden Nash ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx