In Lion, Safari 5.1 no longer plays .m3u files

In Lion, Safari 5.1 no longer plays .m3u files - it just downloads them, and dragging the file back into the browser doesn't do anything. This functionality used to work in 10.6 - the .m3u file would play directly in the browser. The .m3u files still do play directly in Firefox 5, so it doesn't seem to be an issue with the Quicktime plugin, as both browsers should be using the same one.

I just experienced this (trying to listen to audio previews at Amazon.com). If you are running the Click2Flash extension, set it to allow Flash on the domain. That allowed previews to play in Safari for me instead of downloading .m3u's.

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