firefox, mplayerplug-in

[francis keyes]

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...



On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> 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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