William L. Maltby wrote:
Fully up-to-date CentOS 5.2 and Firefox browser. A previous thread had a problem with plugins disappearing. I've discovered, by accident, a causal relationship.
Running a Thunderbird mail client (could happen with others? Haven't tested with Evolution yet.) I click a link that opens the browser. BANG! The plugins.dat is "emptied".
Restored from my rsync backup, repeat, BANG! "Empty" again.
Now, if the browser is already open, NP.
Anyone can confirm?
Known problem?
If not, I'll post bugs in the appropriate places.
Bill,
Tried to reproduce this and could not - closed Firefox, clicked on a link in Thunderbird that opens Firefox. All plugins are OK.
I have no plugins.dat, only
.mozilla/firefox/2ucxmtim.default/pluginreg.dat
firefox-3.0.4-1.el5.centos thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.el5.centos
Have had problems with disappearing plugins when first starting Firefox, and then having them return after closing/restarting. Seemed to be a function of historical user configs and updates as it was not reproducible on a fresh user account. Never could find a bug report on it and did not create one as it worked OK on a clean config. Perhaps you could try this on a fresh account to check out that variable.
Phil