Foundation of media of Firefox support breaks music playback and turn off does nothing.

A friend sent me an MP3 link about a month ago, and I was confused when Firefox told me that the file has been corrupted. I thought it was just the server on which it is.

Then, I stopped being able to listen to music posted by Tumblr. I thought they just updated their player and broke something.

Then I tried to listen directly to an MP3 file on another site tonight, and even once, Firefox tells me "Video cannot be read because the file is corrupted. I broke around a handful of other sites, and each of them told me the same thing when I tried to play an MP3 file.

After some research, I learned that the Firefox team attempted to set up their own system of internal music which cannot find a codec or isn't properly detect these files as music. Now, a long time ago I'm quite used to all these files playing via Quicktime, to the point where, precisely, I'd install Quicktime with every version of Windows just to restore this feature. But now Firefox is the substitution of this feature for some reason any.

The culprit seems to be the option "media.windows - media - foundation.enabled", which I disabled it without delay. Did not help. Firefox is still insisting that these files are corrupted rather than let the Quicktime to manipulate.

This site has also been suggested turn plugins.load_appdir_plugins true, but that didn't help either.

It seems that Firefox is intentionally using a part of Windows that I did not, because I'm still stuck on Windows XP (hardware video capture I depend of not drivers for Vista on the spot). The annoying part is that I can't go back to the way it was, and I'm very angry because he broke an important part of the internet for me.

The technology for playback of MP3s on Windows XP is called DirectShow. You want to try to turn the following preferences and see if it makes something useful?

(1) in a new tab, type or paste Subject: config in the address bar and press ENTER. Click on the button promising to be careful.

(2) in the search above the list box, type or paste media and make a pause so that the list is filtered

(3) double-click the preference media.directshow.enabled from true to false.

I don't know if this changes enter into force immediately or after you exit and then restart Firefox.

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