[SLE] MPlayer and Firefox

Greetings,

I'm using OpenSuSE 10.0, KDE and Firefox 1.5. When I go to a website that has
a link to streaming audio or video, Firefox opens the link in a new tab with
the mplayer plug-in. The particular link that's prompted this email is a .asx
(video/x-ms-asf). I'd like those type links to be opened in a player outside
of the browser so I can park it in another desktop or close the browser
altogether.

In the KDE control center I have the file association for x-ms-asf for Mplayer
as the default, and the embedding set to "show file in a separate viewer".
I've looked in the MPlayer configuration and don't see anything there that
will cause it to open separately, nor is there anything in Firefox.

Should I just remove the MPlayer plug-in or is there something else I can do?

Thanks,

Rob Wright
suserob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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