This man, Dan Fabulich, spent TWO YEARS trying to get a patch checked in.

My god, man. You have the perseverance of a mountain. I don’t know who you are, but you have my respect.

In the bug dialogue, Jonas Sicking says “…I specifically requested not to have…”
Sicking, you are an intelligent person. And I like you; there is no doubt about that, though I don’t know you either. But…be nice.

I love (VideoLan) VLC Media Player. I love Firefox. I love mp3s. I love oggs.

However, I do not love VLC’s browser plugin for listening to mp3s in Firefox. It gives no playback controls.

Quicktime Alternative, however, gives options up the arse and offers to do your dishes as well. The specific file that offers MP3 support is npqtplugin4.dll

Mine is at: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\npqtplugin4.dll

Installing VLC and its Firefox 3.0.5 plugin will set the audio/mpeg association to the VLC plugin in Firefox. Subsequently installing QuickTime alternative will make the plugin available to Firefox. The plugin will broadcast audio support for audio/mpeg and mp3. However, Firefox will refuse to give you the option to choose the new plugin!!!

I cannot find the place to force the new .dll file to be associated with the mime type. But there’s a way around it!!!

Choosing audio/mpeg and audio/x-mpeg and setting them to “always ask” will NOT make the browser ask you what to do with the content. It will, however, suddenly force the browser to use the new plugin dll.

I’m guessing it’s some sort of strange bug where Firefox refuses to list the plugin as an option in the “action” menu if there’s already a plugin that deals with that mime type. Oh well… workaround found! :)