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 Any idea how to get them back?
Looking on the support.mozilla.com/firefox site provides little linux help and seems oriented to windoze users. Appreciate some insight from those who know how this distro hangs it all together.
2009/2/26 Rob Kampen rkampen@kampensonline.com:
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.
Have you tried creating a new profile (not new Linux account) in Firefox and see if the new profile will work with new installs of the plugins? In Windows, profile manager starts by running firefox -profilemanager, not sure exactly if the same works in Linux or you gotta to a firefox --profilemanager.
Noob Centos Admin wrote:
2009/2/26 Rob Kampen rkampen@kampensonline.com:
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.
Have you tried creating a new profile (not new Linux account) in Firefox and see if the new profile will work with new installs of the plugins? In Windows, profile manager starts by running firefox -profilemanager, not sure exactly if the same works in Linux or you gotta to a firefox --profilemanager.
Well, that works, I ignored the default profile, asked to create a new one and hey presto plugins are back. Thanks I do not know why deleting my .mozilla/ directory didn't do it the first time. However this does not fix it for the firefox started from the gnome panel - it still has no plugins. I deleted the default profile, it warns that it will delete all the files in the .mozilla/ folder but still no good...... Still something wrong??? So now I have to launch firefox with firefox --profilemanager ?? Confused, why so complicated!!
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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".
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.
<snip>
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
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.
<snip>
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
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