Hi, Flag.
This issue is strange. I could reproduce the problem you reported in some cases, but not others.
I almost never use Safari: my browser of choice is
OmniWeb.
However, testing in Safari reveals the following:
• When I tried to listen to some Real Audio clips from a CD at Amazon.com, like
this one, a
hurl-n.exe.ram file (n=an integer) downloads but Real Player (Version 10.0.0 (352)) does not play the clip automatically. I have to double-click the file for Real Player to launch and play the clip.
• When I watch some videos at C-SPAN, such as
these, Real Player launches immediately and begins playing the stream.
If I use OmniWeb, as you saw with FireFox, Real Player is launched and the media streams from both Amazon and C-SPAN play immediately.
I tried a variety of things:
- Trashing Safari preferences.
- Trashing Real Player Preferences and re-configuring.
- Looking for messages in Console logs.
- Force re-association of the .ram files with Real Player per the Real FAQ.
None of these made a difference in Safari. It just seems Safari is handling Real Player files from certain Web sites differently than OmniWeb, in my case, or Firefox in your case.
As andy asked, perhaps you can post some links to Web sites where this problem is occurring for you and we can test those as well.
Good luck!
😉 Dr. Smoke
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