Not sure if there's anything we can do here based on the information given, but... Slashdot comment on 0.9.1: " At work we have an Jukebox with a custom application we wrote to send PHP files of xmms playlists. From version .7 to .9, Mozilla was unable to launch XMMS automatically. The "M" icon chugged a little bit then nothing. In order to make this work, I had to set the Helper App setting to prompt me every time and click "Open Using...", even though /usr/bin/xmms is right there. An annoying step, but one I was willing to live with, expecting it would be fixed soon. As of .91, I no longer have this problem. No matter what my helper app settings are, when I click on a playlist, I get the "Save File As" dialog. Great job 3L33T Mozilla Script Kiddies!"

No doubt these "PHP files of xmms playlists" have an extension that is "executable" (has an extension that is executed directly in a standard Win32 installation). Working as designed, unfortunately. The user should be able to override this safety measure by creating an appropriate helper app pref entry for the mime type and un-checking the "always ask me" box. That would bypass the dialog, which is where the check is for the file extension.

XMMS is the X Multimedia System, so this is likely a *nix bug.

Then forget what I said. The only way you should go straight to the "Save File As..." dialog is if we find a helper app pref entry for the mime-type, and, find that you've set the action to "save to disk" and have unchecked the "always ask me before opening files of this type" checkbox. If that's not the case, it's a bug. We need to know the mime type, what you've got in your helper app prefs, and the url, if possible.

Confirmed on Buildid 2001060811 (0.9.1) on Linux (This is not a Win2k bug) It seems Mozilla ignore the "Ask me before opening downloaded files of this type" properties..

I'm having the exact same problem with mozilla 0.91 using the following: M3U audio/x-mpegurl xmms %s with "Ask me before downloading" unchecked. It makes it impossible for me to reasonably stream mp3s on mp3.com. In all versions of Mozilla I've used, it has yet to correctly allow streaming of mp3s on Linux.

->mscott, since bill is on sabbatical. punt as needed. some info: bug 84241 disabled the "Ask me before..." checkbox in *only* commercial builds. bug 48948 claims that the "Ask me before..." checkbox should work. this bug implies that it isn't.

hokay, did a bit of testing. thx to jrgm, i've got an mp3 file which is actually served out as mp3 [well, as audio/mpeg --sorry about this being an internal url]. so, i set up a helper app with the following settings [using a linux mozilla debug from 6/14]: extension: mp3 mime: audio/mpeg application: /usr/bin/xmms deselected [turned off] the "Ask me before opening..." checkbox result: when i click on the test url http://jrgm.mcom.com/bugs/mimetypes/lemon_lane.mp3, XMMS launches automatically. is this still a problem with anyone else? if so, please give me an exact example [ie, mime, extension, and a specific url pointing to a sample file].

marking wfm...reopen with specific tests if this is still a problem. thx!