firefox, mplayerplug-in

[Dr P Dupre]

I could suggest alos to remove the file:
.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat

> Hi All,
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:02 -0400, francis keyes wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm using Fedora 7 with firefox-2.0.0.10-2.fc7.
>>> Whenever I try to download an mp3 the file opens in Firefox and starts
>>> playing instead of asking me what I want to do with the file.   i
>>> thought this might be the mplayerplug-in at work but removing the
>>> plugin with yum made no change.
>>>
>>> I tried Preferences--> Content--> File Types--> Manage but no file
>>> types are listed and I can't add any.
>>>
>>> Does nyone know how to tell Firefox what to do with an mp3 file?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>> Here is what you can do. I wish Mozilla would fix this. Go to
>> about:config in firefox.
>
>
>
> What do you mean about:config  ?
> I don't understand this.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>>
>> Change the configuration Of:
>> browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions from true to false by
>> clicking on it.
>> Then: Preferences--> Content--> File Types--> Manage
>> will display which programs handle which file types.
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