On 12/25/10 4:37 AM, Rick Merrill wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 12/23/10 8:13 PM, dev wrote: >>> /David E. Ross/ said: >>>> I'm finding more and more Web sites with streaming broadcasts that >>>> use Flash or some application embedded in a Web page to play the >>>> stream. This means that, as soon as I go to another Web page or >>>> change my profile, I lose the broadcast. Sometimes, this also >>>> happens with Windows Media Player, for which I recently disabled the >>>> plugin. >>>> >>>> Is there some way (perhaps an extension) that forces such a stream >>>> into an application external to SeaMonkey (e.g., Winamp, RealPlayer) >>>> so that playing the stream is no longer tied to a particular Web >>>> page? >>> >>> FILE|OPEN WEB PAGE|OPEN IN NEW BROWSER WINDOW. >>> >>> The new window won't disturb the old. >>> >>> Or try<SHIFT>clicking on the SM icon in the taskbar. That should start >>> another instance, which will open browser, mail, composer or the address >>> book, depending upon which you have SM configured to open, under >>> EDIT|PREFS|APPEARANCE. >> >> Oh, I know I can use tabbed browsing or a new window to continue playing >> the streamed broadcast. But I want to change profiles; I have four >> different SeaMonkey profiles. When I change profiles, any extra >> SeaMonkey windows or tabs close. Then I lose the broadcast. > > If you change profiles you can't 'see' what's in the other profiles (nor > hear). > > stick to 'dev's advice.
If I select a link on a Web page for a streaming broadcast and that causes Winamp or RealPlayer to launch, the broadcast continues playing when I switch profiles or even terminate SeaMonkey. I want to find a way to launch an external application when the link would otherwise play via Flash or some other embedded Web page application. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
