2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
6:14 p.m.
On Thursday 02 February 2006 13:11, Lee Revell wrote:
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 12:51 -0500, Brett McCoy wrote:
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.
Lee Revell wrote:
Hmm, I used to have that, but somehow it got uninstalled.
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:23 -0500, Dana Olson
wrote:
mplayer-mozilla plugin seems to work for most things (even
Quicktime). 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... 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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