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Hi everybody,

I use Mozilla Firefox (3.0.5), VLC (0.9.8aGrishenko) on Windows XP Home SP3. I am not really sure if this is a Windows-related or Firefox-related question, so I hope I am right in this category.

When I try to listen to a BEFORE i installed VLC, the Windows Media Player was launched and played the stream. But I not want to use WMP anymore

So I installed VLC. Now when I surf to a ASX-Stream in Firefox, the VLC-Plugin is starting INSIDE the browser (black screen in browser, playback of stream). Thats ok, but I would be more happy, if Firefox would start the standalone VLC-Player, not the Plugin.

I am not sure, how I can do this. The configuration of Firefox everywhere says "open with vlc.exe", but everytime the plugin is beeing used. When I remove the npvlc.dll of VLC-player, then nothing happens anymore.

In Windows all media types are associated with the VLC player.

Thank you in advance for any help!
Stefan

Windows file type associations aren't used in Firefox. It uses different association logic. When you remove npvlc.dll, Firefox should ask what you want to do those files. Then you can choose to automatically open them in vlc.exe

Thank you for the answer!

I removed npvlc.dll. But nothing happens. The plugin of course now not start anymore. But the browser window stays white and I am not asked what I want to do with the file (open with / save as).

I dont understand, why

You already have some program associated to ASF files from Firefox?
http://webcampus.drexelmed.edu/time/new ... dialog.png

If so, remove it and try again.

Okay, now I know, that this is not a problem of VLC and not a problem of Windows. Surprisingly there is now association with the questionable file types in firefox. But why firefox is not asking what to do with these files and do nothing? But I think I have to ask this question in a Firefox forum Because I can not add these extensions...