Firefox mplayerplug-in
 

I see a problem in firefox and mplayerplug-in. On some sites if I have a wav file to be played inside the browser it would pop a message for that to be saved, though on some it plays very well. The difference I see b/w Answers.com and M-w.com for pronouncing the words and m-w it's fine but answers.com its popping out the save as box. Sometime back as far as I remember it was functioning normal. How do I correct this?

Proberly this is caused by the mime headers send by the server OR by the way the audio plugin was defined in the HTML-code.

I'm affraid you can't do anything about it.

The story about the mime headers in detail:
When you download a file from a webserver, the server send to the client what type of file follows. Normaly it shoud say something like audio/wave for a wave file. But if the webserver doesn't reconize the wave file as a wave file it will send application/data, resulting in the fact that your browser also doesn't know what file type is comming. If this happens the browser will show the "save to" pop-up.

Jeroen

But earlier it worked without any problems at least for answers.com

answers.com WFM. What media player are you trying to use to play the sounds? Have you recently updated Firefox? If so double check to make sure all of your plugins are still there by typing about:plugins in the address bar.

You can also check the configuration of the mplayerplug-in .

Take a look under Edit>Preferences>Downloads and take a look at your file types; you can set Firefox to open a specific file type with a certain program.