Firefox and Mozilla helper applications

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:32:33 -0500
"BBBB" <ubuntulist at thingbuilder.com> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Peter Garrett" <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>
> 
> > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:43:05 -0500
> > "BBBB" <ubuntulist at thingbuilder.com> wrote:

[snip]
> > > How can I get Firefox to open the stream with either Beep or XMMS?
> >
> > In Firefox, Edit --> Preferences --> Downloads --> View And Edit Actions
> > Look for "MP3 Shoutcast playlist" and set it to beep-media-player or xmms.
> > I also have "MP3 Audio (streamed)" set to beep-media-player. You can edit
> > others as well, of course, and override the totem plugins if desired.
> >
> > Some of these media links unfortunately go to obscure little popup windows
> > that have cryptic codes to access the content. I haven't worked out a
> > solution to this, for those that fail to link... although occasionally
> > using "view source" will show the real URL. I expect these windows are
> > generally there to force users to watch some promotional/advertising
> > content, or restrict access to only windows media players etc.. They drive
> > me crazy ;-)
> >
> > Peter
> >
> Thanks,
>   When I was in the View Edit Actions earlier I didn't see any MP3 info and
> so couldn't edit it. I saw no provision to add a new action to the list.
>   In Mozilla, the box was blank.

Ah, sorry - I failed to remember that I had tweaked this for the same
reasons as yours. 

> Is there any config file I can edit? I would like to be able to get a handle
> on this
> and not need to have both Mozilla and Firefox running.

OK, I made a new profile ( firefox  -ProfileManager ) to see what I had
changed to make this visible. Solution follows:

1) Type  about:config in the location bar of FF
2) Type  browser.download  in the Filter field
3) Change  "browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions"  to
"false" ( you can toggle this with a double click on the highlighted line)

Now the options should show in the Preferences as I suggested above.

I kind of think hiding this is a bit, umm, silly on Mozilla/Firefox's part
- but I guess people were fiddling with it and then complaining when they
broke something - who knows?

Hope that helps you to get the functionality you want.

Peter