[CentOS] intrusive chrome [was: Re: clicking on link in Thunderbird fails to open page in Firefox]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2013, Akemi Yagi wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:54 AM,  <me at tdiehl.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/30/2013, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
>>> If so, the recent xorg-x11-server updates require that you rebuild (or
>>> reinstall) the drivers as those drivers replace some xorg files and if
>>> you do not reinstall it can freeze the system or crash X.
>>
>> Another thing you can do if you are using the NVIDIA drivers is add the
>> following to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
>>
>> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
>> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
>> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
>>
>> See http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=425 for more details.
>>
>> By fixing the xorg.conf file, you do not have to worry about this problem
>> re-occurring next time xorg gets upgraded.
>
> In case it is not obvious, I'd like to add a note here. If you are
> using ELRepo's Nvidia driver, you do _not_ have to do anything as the
> referenced issue has been taken care of in there. Quoting Phil Perry
> from that bug report (comment 3338):
>
> "You are correct that the file
> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so is indeed from the distro
> package xorg-x11-server-Xorg. We DO NOT replace that file as if we did
> every time the distro package xorg-x11-server-Xorg gets updated the
> NVIDIA drivers will break. This is the way the NVIDIA proprietary
> installer does it and it's the WRONG way."

I have used the EL-Repo Nvidia package since I loaded C6 on this machine in
the early days of 6.0. Are you saying that I did not have to modify the 
xorg.conf? The only way I could get it to load the Nvidia driver without
reinstalling, was to make the changes noted in the above referenced bug.

Please clarify what you mean.

Regards,

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