Ubuntu mplayer-plugin crashed firefox Feisty Fawn

There seems to be a rather nasty bug in the mplayer-plugin in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. When a an embed tag uses both title as a parameter in the attributes 'filename' and 'src', then these titles should match, otherwise mplayer-plugin will let firefox crash.

An example would be:

<embed 
 type="audio/x-ms-wma"  
 src="http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/vpro/32854290/windowsmedia.asf?title=Findel+-+Cube+44&author=Findel" 
 filename="http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/vpro/32854290/windowsmedia.asf?title=Findel - Cube 44&author=Findel"&ht;
</embed>

In this example the title used in filename is 'Findel+-+Cube..' and in src is 'Findel - Cube..' and since these titles don't match mplayer-plugin will crash.

Remedy:

- uninstall mplayer-plugin via 'apt-get remove mplayer-plugin'
- manually install version 3.40 or above from
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/