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| bobboy 2007-03-05, 7:13 pm |
| Hi all, I have several hundred music files on my hard drive and I use
a web page (also on the hard drive) to track them. Now i've upgraded
(I'm using firefox 2.0.0.2) firfox wants to save the file to the hard
drive again. All I want to do is have my default player (VLC media
player) open the things without dialog boxs. Any ideas? TIA
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| Peter.Potamus.the.Purple.Hippo@gmail.com 2007-03-05, 7:13 pm |
| On Mar 5, 2:28 pm, bobboy <ghjx@hasd> wrote:
> Hi all, I have several hundred music files on my hard drive and I use
> a web page (also on the hard drive) to track them. Now i've upgraded
> (I'm using firefox 2.0.0.2) firfox wants to save the file to the hard
> drive again. All I want to do is have my default player (VLC media
> player) open the things without dialog boxs. Any ideas? TIA
I'll never understand why some people want to use FF for listening to
music/videos. Thats not what FF is for. FF is for browsing the web
-- nothing more, nothing less. If you want to listen to music or
watch videos, then use a program that is designed for that.
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| Leonidas Jones 2007-03-05, 7:13 pm |
| bobboy wrote:
> Hi all, I have several hundred music files on my hard drive and I use
> a web page (also on the hard drive) to track them. Now i've upgraded
> (I'm using firefox 2.0.0.2) firfox wants to save the file to the hard
> drive again. All I want to do is have my default player (VLC media
> player) open the things without dialog boxs. Any ideas? TIA
I kind of agree with Grant in that FF was not really designed with sort
of thing in mind. It may have been a bug in earlier versions that was
allowing you to do this.
However, try (assuming Windows) Tools>>Options>>Content.
Click the Manage button under File types. Remove any action associated
with music file types involved. Try again, and see if FF gives you a
choice as to what to do with the file.
Lee
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| bobboy 2007-03-09, 7:13 pm |
| Read the question properly. I use FF as an index to link to the music
files, which opens VLC video program. The latest version of FF wants
to save the file not open the player. Maybe it's one thing IE does
well.
On 5 Mar 2007 15:59:27 -0800, Peter.Potamus.the.Purple.Hippo@gmail.com
wrote:
>On Mar 5, 2:28 pm, bobboy <ghjx@hasd> wrote:
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>I'll never understand why some people want to use FF for listening to
>music/videos. Thats not what FF is for. FF is for browsing the web
>-- nothing more, nothing less. If you want to listen to music or
>watch videos, then use a program that is designed for that.
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| bobboy 2007-03-09, 7:13 pm |
| On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:29:01 GMT, Leonidas Jones <Cap1MD@att.net>
wrote:
>bobboy wrote:
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>I kind of agree with Grant in that FF was not really designed with sort
>of thing in mind. It may have been a bug in earlier versions that was
>allowing you to do this.
>
>However, try (assuming Windows) Tools>>Options>>Content.
>
>Click the Manage button under File types. Remove any action associated
>with music file types involved. Try again, and see if FF gives you a
>choice as to what to do with the file.
>
>Lee
That worked . Thanks for the help but any idea how to get the' do this
automataclly' box to show up, its greyed out and unusable.
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| Ed Mullen 2007-03-09, 7:13 pm |
| bobboy wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:29:01 GMT, Leonidas Jones <Cap1MD@att.net>
> wrote:
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> That worked . Thanks for the help but any idea how to get the' do this
> automataclly' box to show up, its greyed out and unusable.
You might try this:
Enter about :config in the address bar and hit Enter. In the Filter bar
enter "helper" (no quotes). Try changing the values one at a time in the
preferences that appear.
Not sure if this will solve the problem or not.
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
http://mozilla.edmullen.net
http://abington.edmullen.net
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| bobboy 2007-03-13, 7:12 pm |
| On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:54:52 -0500, Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:
>bobboy wrote:
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>You might try this:
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>Enter about :config in the address bar and hit Enter. In the Filter bar
>enter "helper" (no quotes). Try changing the values one at a time in the
>preferences that appear.
>
>Not sure if this will solve the problem or not.
Thanks for the help, I'll try that
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