"David E. Ross" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> On 8/19/2009 5:17 PM, Dick Baker wrote:
>> 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?
>
> In some cases, this is not a browser issue. Instead, it relates to
> the sequence in which the applications were installed.
>
> For example, I have both Acrobat (the writer) and Adobe Reader
> installed. For a long time, PDF files on the Web would open in the
> writer and not the reader. In setting up a replacement PC, I
> installed Acrobat first and then Adobe Reader. At that time, the
> versions of SeaMonkey, Acrobat, and Adobe Reader were all the same as
> on the old, replaced PC. The problem went away. I experiemented by
> removing Acrobat and Adobe Reader and then reinstalled them,
> installing Adobe Reader first and then Acrobat. The problem
> reappeared. I removed just Adobe Reader and then reinstalled it. The
> problem went away.
>
> Thus, in many cases, the last application installed is the one used.
>
All true, and I, coincidentally, ran across that same Acrobat/Acrobat
Reader issue a while back and solved it the same way you did.
BUT that's not the case here. The only program I installed on the
rebuilt PC that has claimed the .mp3 & .wav & .mpg association is Windows
Media Player. I'd really like to fix this SM anomaly, since its internal
player has no utility--no playback controls and, in the case of .mp3
files, no display of the standard mp3 tags.
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