How do I get mp3 files to stream?
I installed Firefox on a new HD. Before when I clicked on a website mp3 audio file, it opened the file in the default player and streamed it in. This is what I prefer. But now, it automatically downloads the file and I must select it to play it. How do I change that to be as before?
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.7 r700
- DRM Netscape Network Object
- Npdsplay dll
- DRM Store Netscape Plugin
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape
Application
- Firefox 21.0
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0
- Support URL: http://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/21.0/WINNT/en-US/
Extensions
- Skype Click to Call 6.9.0.12585 ({82AF8DCA-6DE9-405D-BD5E-43525BDAD38A})
- Troubleshooter 1.1a (troubleshooter@mozilla.org)
- Yahoo! Toolbar 2.6.0.20130418072822 ({635abd67-4fe9-1b23-4f01-e679fa7484c1})
Javascript
- incrementalGCEnabled: True
Graphics
- adapterDescription: NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS
- adapterDescription2:
- adapterDeviceID: 0x0423
- adapterDeviceID2:
- adapterDrivers: nv4_disp
- adapterDrivers2:
- adapterRAM: Unknown
- adapterRAM2:
- adapterVendorID: 0x10de
- adapterVendorID2:
- direct2DEnabled: False
- direct2DEnabledMessage: [u'tryNewerDriver', u'182.65']
- directWriteEnabled: False
- directWriteVersion: 0.0.0.0
- driverDate: 5-14-2007
- driverDate2:
- driverVersion: 6.14.11.5828
- driverVersion2:
- info: {u'AzureCanvasBackend': u'skia', u'AzureFallbackCanvasBackend': u'cairo', u'AzureContentBackend': u'none'}
- isGPU2Active: False
- numAcceleratedWindows: 0
- numAcceleratedWindowsMessage: [u'tryNewerDriver', u'182.65']
- numTotalWindows: 1
- webglRendererMessage: [u'tryNewerDriver', u'182.65']
- windowLayerManagerType: Basic
Modified Preferences
- browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
- browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 4
- browser.startup.homepage: www.google.com
- browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20130511120803
- browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 21.0
- dom.w3c_touch_events.expose: False
- extensions.lastAppVersion: 21.0
- network.cookie.prefsMigrated: True
- places.database.lastMaintenance: 1372542330
- places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 53638
- plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf
- privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: True
Misc
- User JS: No
- Accessibility: No
Could you provide the website url
You can open about:config via the location bar and set the media.windows-media-foundation.enabled pref to false to disable the built-in HTML5 media player.
Question owner
That file is send as Content-Type: audio/mpeg
So you need to have a media player that can handle this MIME type.
You can open the about:plugins page via the location bar to check that.
- Tools > Options > Applications
You can delete the mimeTypes.rdf file in the Firefox profile folder to reset all file actions.