Firefox download audio files instead of playing unlike other browsers?
In my experience with the TF2 Wiki page, clicking an audio file link would open a new tab where I can play the file. Since I've moved to firefox, I can no longer do this. Instead, the file downloads. Is there a way to change this? I saw in another post that you have to change the flag media.play-stand-alone to true but it was already true.
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Yeah I've just noticed. Firefox plays mp3 files instead of downloading, so it may be an issue with the page. Thanks.
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How does the server send this file (content type)?
- https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/network_monitor/
- https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/web_console/
Can you post a link to a publicly accessible page (i.e. no authentication or signing on required)?
https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Audio_cues This page is full of audio files. The syntax of one audio is https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/0/08/Coach_attack_here.wav
I don't know why Firefox wants to download this file send as audio/x-wav as it plays fine if I use a data audio URI, it doesn't even show an "Open with" dialog.
- data:text/html,<audio src="https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/0/08/Coach_attack_here.wav" controls>
الحل المُختار
Yeah I've just noticed. Firefox plays mp3 files instead of downloading, so it may be an issue with the page. Thanks.