I've un-installed gnome-mplayer completely, so this has at least the same effect. However, this leaves the question opened : either gnome- mplayer should be fixed, or either gnome-mplayer should not be the player used for MIDI files in browsers.
I do not know if a bug can be marked as fixed with a mention like “do not use that application for this purpose”, but I feel this may be an idea here, especially because there is a solution with another with another player. Now this would lead to a second question : how do we play MIDI files in browsers if not with gnome-mplayer ? The answer I suggest is : using Totem instead. And this is precisely the matter of another bug report from someone who, three years ago, wondered why FireFox is not relying on Totem for that : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/245131 Note this does not only impact FireFox, but also Opera, which is able to use installed FireFox's Mozilla plugins. Sorry for being late, I did not received an e-mail notification for this comment. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231421 Title: mplayer plugin for firefox can't play midi To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/231421/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
