William L. Maltby wrote:
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 23:17 -0500, Rob Kampen wrote:
Hi gurus I have a CentOS 5.2 current x86_64 that has Thunderbird and Firefox working well for one user account (my wife) but will not play nice for my account. I have uninstalled thunderbird and firefox (via yum) and re-installed - no change. I have just wiped the .mozilla folder and started afresh, but it still shows no plugins, yet the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ has the libflashplayer.so link etc.
How does all this stuff get hooked up.
I have previously installed firefox direct from their site and not used the CentOS supplied rpm, but now that RH say the light and provides a current version, I use the yum process to get my firefox installed. Everything was working a week or so ago, but when I tried fixing things yesterday, all went rapidly pear shaped. In firefox I pressed the Check Now button under Firefox > Preferences > Advanced > System Defaults and now its gone and lost all my plugins
In the other thread about this to which I replied, I tried to make clear that this is the cause of the pluginreg.dat being trashed. You want to have NOT checked the check now and/or make it the default. Gnome has a script that can set this. Someone else posted it in another thread, but I can't remember it. Also, the Gnome menus System->Preferences->More Preferences->Preferred Applications->Web Browser can be used to set it. Once you select Firefox, the command box should have "firefox %s".
Yes, I needed to edit the Preferred Applications, somehow it was set to custom and did not pick up my plugins. I have just selected the firefox icon and all appears to work.
Once this is set, starting FF should make a new pluginreg.dat if you removed the previous one, IIRC.
In FF, edit preferences will get you to a place where you can fine tune the plugin configuration.
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I'm going from memory here. Search the CentOS archives for a previous thread about this to find all the gory details. A search with my name, and pluginreg and/or firefox outght to get you to it quickly.
HTH