[linux-audio-user] Some various questions about system configuration..

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 02 February 2006 13:11, Lee Revell wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 12:51 -0500, Brett McCoy wrote:
>> Lee Revell wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:23 -0500, Dana Olson wrote:
>> >>I am hoping Dapper shatters my expectations, considering
>> >>they're pitting it against Vista and want it to be very extra
>> >>polished. I guess time will tell.
>> >
>> > If they want to pit it against Vista they'd better get off their
>> > butts and get streaming video in Firefox working.  75% of the time
>> > I just get that damn "Plugin Finder" and then when I click it of
>> > course "No suitable plugin could be found".
>> >
>> > Desktop Linux is a joke if stuff like this still won't work...
>>
>> mplayer-mozilla plugin seems to work for most things (even
>> Quicktime).
>
>Hmm, I used to have that, but somehow it got uninstalled.
>
It gets 'uninstalled' everytime you upgrade firefox or mozilla because 
the friggin installer insists on a clean tree, so it deletes the old 
one including all your plugins.

I finally said to hell with that crap and made a seperate plugins dir 
adjacent the the mozilla/firefox installs, and then when each new 
version is installed, do an lndir from the now clean plugins dir to the 
seperate one thats still there.  It sure saves a lot of memory 
searching in foggy memory and the pissin & moanin that goes with it  
around here.

If the mozilla/firefox folks knew just how big a pita that was, they'd 
recommend doing something like I did.  Or figger out a way to save your 
plugins dir.

>Still, this is not good - what the heck is the point of the "Plugin
>Finder" in firefox then, if it isn't even aware of the package
> manager? To install random binary codecs Windows style?  I've seen it
> hundreds of times and never once had it do anything useful.

Me neither, its usless to linux users.  But, amazingly firefox did 
actually go get, install and rerun itself a couple of days ago for some 
sort of an update.  In nearly 2 years of having that automatic upgrade, 
thats a first!
>
>Lee

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