User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 This may seem trivial and many may feel that I do NOT want my browser playing music, but here is the reasons. Maybe it should be a plugin like flash, but since the library is free why not include it directly. WHY INCLUDE: Wikipedia exclusively provides Ogg Vorbis formats. Grandma has no idea what an Ogg file is, but she clicks on Beethoven Symphony and saves a file to her hard drive. Wouldn't clicking and getting music help promote Firefox as full featured. WHY NOT INCLUDE: If it increases the binary size by a significant amount. This could allow more sites to play annoying music (but they already do using flash). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Brown 2. Click on Media File, "Song From A Cotton Field" 3. Firefox asks you to save file Actual Results: 3. Firefox asks you to save file Expected Results: 3. Firefox brings up window with play button/or plays song (Bessie Brown page included because it is small and easy to find song; Beethoven has tons of info before media file).

Why not include: This represents significant work as Mozilla currently doesn't have any sound sound decoding at all; the only thing it has is nsISound, which basically involves chucking the data at the system and hoping for the best. Which isn't exactly going to work for your target audience... I'm assuming significant work involves significant code size changes :p By default Firefox (on my machine at least) prompts open / save with open as default. Which should Just Work for the grandma (or break because she has no ogg player). Suggestion: Try your luck writing a plugin that plays ogg and submit it to the plugin finder service. That actually seems doable. Then convince Wikipedia to somehow embed the audio instead of offering a link to it, so plugin finder can be triggered... (I'm just a bug triager, core people could disagree with me. If you can get somebody to care, they can reopen. However, bugzilla wouldn't be the place to do it)