In rebuilding after C: drive crash (FYI: three times in 25 year ain't bad,
I suppose, twice caused by misbehaving software, once by lightning strike),
SM 1.1.17 (Win XP) is "misbehaving," in that it insists on opening online
WAV and MP3 audio files and mpg/mpeg video files "internally," rather than
using Windows Media Player, which is my default app for all video & audio
files.
Before the rebuild, it properly invoked WMP for those filetypes, as does
the same version of SM on my similarly set-up notebook computer.
Why the difference? My notebook shows those three file types in helper
apps with the selection "open it using the default application" (which is
WMP), but if I try to install them in the new PC install in helper apps, I
get "Warning: SM can handle this type internally..."
The MozillaZine Knowledge Base says (or at least implies), that only very
basic filetypes (standard web graphics formats and text files) are handled
inernally [discussing adding new MIME types in Helper Apps]:
The actions you add will not affect MIME types that are handled
internally, which include certain MIME types such as image/jpeg or
text/plain [3] and all MIME types that are handled by plugins [4]. Before
adding a new action for such MIME types, a Warning dialog similar to the
following will be displayed: [the warning about handling this type
internally].
Any suggestions on how I can force SM to use WMP for those audio/video file
types?
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