MMS protocol

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:03:36 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Friday 25 November 2005 10:55, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>>On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:37:34 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 23:47, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>>>>On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:43:09 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>>>> I need to see certain video for my studies. When I try to view them
>>>>> from the university's website, I am greeted with the error
>>>>> (translated): "MMS is not a registered protocol"
>>>>>
>>>>> How can I resolve this? I am on Firefox 1.0.7 with the mplayer
>>>>> plugin. I am open to using different browsers and/or plgins if
>>>>> neccassary. I have closely followed all the threads concerning
>>>>> mplayer in firefox for the past few months in anticipation of the
>>>>> need for this. However, none of them mention this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dotan Cohen
>>>>> http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/biography/425/red_hot_chili_peppers.ph
>>>>>p Red Hot Chili Peppers Song Lyrics and Biography
>>>>
>>>>You may have tried this, but if you haven't...
>>>>
>>>>In firefox go to
>>>>
>>>>about:config
>>>>
>>>>then define (right click) 2 new types:
>>>>
>>>>network.protocol-handler.app.mms user set string mplayer
>>>>network.protocol-handler.external.mms user set boolean true
>>>
>>> Unforch, when copy/pasting the above, the format gets out of step
>>> with the data boxes, and there is no delete function.  How do we fix
>>> that?
> [...]
>>You don't cut-and-paste. Right-click -> New string, value, etc.
>>For the other, new boolean, true, etc.
> 
> Yes, so I found out.  But the question was: how do I get rid of the
> bogus entries since there isn't a delete function?  The copy/paste put
> it all in the name string.
> 
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Sorry, now I see what you mean. I do find it silly that there is no
delete button. 

Close the browser, then 

cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/????.default/

(use whatever you have instead of the ???). If you defined a preference
which you don't want, say bogus.preference, you will have a line

user_pref("bogus.preference",  ... etc. 

in prefs.js. Delete that. Again, the browser must be not running when you
do that. 

Then read the comments to the beginning of prefs.js, with a pointer to how
to set up preferences:

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs

Apparently, we can/should have a user.js file with (extra?) preferences.