On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:16 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2008-12-05, 23:48 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > >> I was able to _start_ a comparison process, not completed yet. > > What is the output of the command > > mozilla-plugin-config -l > # mozilla-plugin-config -l -bash: mozilla-plugin-config: command not found Hmm... after an updatedb, did this # locate mozilla-plug No results. > ? And if you have flash-plugin in ~/.mozilla then many bad things Looks like I'm OK there. $ cd .mozilla;find . -iname '*plug*' ./firefox/9be8vroz.default/pluginreg.dat- ./firefox/9be8vroz.default/pluginreg.dat-2 ./firefox/9be8vroz.default/pluginreg.dat # locate flash-plugin /home/hardtolove/Desktop/flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386.rpm /usr/lib/flash-plugin /usr/lib/flash-plugin/LICENSE /usr/lib/flash-plugin/README /usr/lib/flash-plugin/homecleanup /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup /usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-10.0.12.36 /usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-10.0.12.36/readme.txt This is the one from the adobe site. # rpm -qv flash-plugin flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release > will happen to you. Remove it and install the one from Adobe yum > repo together with nspluginwrapper from CentOS repos. Did it. # rpm -q nspluginwrapper nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-22.el5 However, when I restart FF, this plugin does _not_ appear in the tools->add-ons plugins tab window. Should it? The pluginreg.dat seems to have been updated and the nspluginwrapper is in there. ]$ cd .mozilla [hardtolove at centos501 .mozilla]$ find . -iname '*plug*' -ls 16285943 12 -rw------- 1 hardtolove hardtolove 5267 Nov 20 19:55 ./firefox/9be8vroz.default/pluginreg.dat- 16288526 8 -rw------- 1 hardtolove hardtolove 65 Dec 5 17:37 ./firefox/9be8vroz.default/pluginreg.dat-2 16288502 12 -rw------- 1 hardtolove hardtolove 5859 Dec 6 14:32 ./firefox/9be8vroz.default/pluginreg.dat [hardtolove at centos501 .mozilla]$ date Sat Dec 6 14:44:38 EST 2008 $ grep nsplug ./firefox/9be8vroz.default/pluginreg.dat /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npwrapper.so:$ <a href="http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/">nspluginwrapper</a> is a cross-platform NPAPI plugin viewer, in particular for linux/i386 plugins.<br>This is <b>beta</b> software available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.<br>:$ > > Does it help? Might be hard to tell since the behavior is inconsistent. But everything is now set the way "we" think it should be. > > Matěj Since missing stuff reappeared during testing, I guess there will be a delay while I see if the behavior occurs again. I'll keep this post and post either when it happens again or after a few days if it doesn't happen again. > <snip sig stuff> Thanks for all the help, -- Bill