Re: firefox, mplayerplug-in

On Thursday 31 January 2008 21:32, francis keyes wrote:
Nigel,

Thanks for the info. I usually right-click and choose "save link as" to
download an mp3 that is linked directly. However, I am trying to access
the output of a web application at:
http://ckdu.dal.ca
I click the download button and the script redirects the web browser to an
mp3, for instance:
http://ckdu.dal.ca/32/20080120.12.50-13.10.mp3

In the past this has worked fine, Firefox would ask me what I wanted to do
with the mp3 file.

But since Fedora 7 it automatically plays the file... :(

I guess I should probably post this to a Firefox mailing list...

That's interesting. Indeed Firefox wants to just play the file when clicking
download (that's on 32kbps, as I'm on dialup) , and a right click doesn't
give the "save link as" option. I still get the Flashgot options, but
clicking on Kget does nothing. I tried the site with KDE's Konqueror, and
just left clicking on the download button. Here I get an options box to play
the file with Noatun, or Save as. Clicking on Save as takes me to Kget's
"Where do you want to save it to" window. Having decided where to put the
file, Kget is downloading the mp3 at the mo.

I'm trying this with Firefox on Archlinux, as I don't have Fedora 7 booted up
at the mo.

It almost looks like it's more to with the site, and it's willingness to work
with Firefox, as Konqueror is downloading the file ok.

Nigel.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday 31 January 2008 19:02, francis keyes wrote:
Hi All,

I'm using Fedora 7 with firefox-2.0.0.10-2.fc7.
Whenever I try to download an mp3 the file opens in Firefox and starts
playing instead of asking me what I want to do with the file. i

thought

this might be the mplayerplug-in at work but removing the plugin with

yum

made no change.

I tried Preferences--> Content--> File Types--> Manage but no file
types are listed and I can't add any.

Does nyone know how to tell Firefox what to do with an mp3 file?

Thanks

Hi Francis. I think you'll find that Firefox will do much as any browser
when
clicking on a music file. It will try and play it, rather than download
it.

Looking at this site for example. http://www.musically.me.uk/updates.html

If I click on an mp3, Firefox starts to use mplayerplugin to play it. If
you
right click on the file, you can use the "save link as" option, to save
the
file to disk.

I use KDE, and Kget for downloads, and have installed the Flashgot plugin
on
Firefox. The Flashgot plugin allows me to download files using KDE's
Kget. Again, if you right click on the mp3 file, and select "FlashGot
Options", you
have an option to use Kget for the download, and can then decide where
you want to download the file to.

All the best.

Nigel.

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