Explorer vs Firefox and WMP

Nogginsaked

If I click on an internet streaming audio source using IE that uses WMP I
have to save a header to the desktop and click on that or I get a box
telling me that the file format is not recognized.
However if I click on the same source using Firefox the stream automatically
opens in WMP as it should.
Why does Firefox get it right and Microsoft ***** the pooch on Microsoft's
own audio file format?

zachd [MSFT]

What's the URL?

This *should* either be a bad source URL (MIME types not configured
properly) or that your local system's file associations are broken.

As regards the latter possibility, IE does a security check as part of IE's
progressive download support - since Firefox doesn't support that, you
wouldn't see that security check ever fail there since they don't run it.

What third party players are on the system? A number do stomp on WMP's file
associations as many aren't really Vista compatible yet.

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"Nogginsaked" <> wrote in message
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> If I click on an internet streaming audio source using IE that uses WMP I
> have to save a header to the desktop and click on that or I get a box
> telling me that the file format is not recognized.
> However if I click on the same source using Firefox the stream
> automatically opens in WMP as it should.
> Why does Firefox get it right and Microsoft ***** the pooch on Microsoft's
> own audio file format?