On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 18:49 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > SYNOPSIS: Bug between Firefox and > > gnome-default-applications-properties > > somewhere. > > When FF is set to check to see if it is the default browser and it is > not and the user selects "Yes" to make it the default, FF writes the > full path to the /usr/lib instance in the command and sets the preferred > browser to "Custom". > > This causes the symptoms that have been seen, including the truncation > of pluginreg.dat. > > If the user responds "No" when FF asks if it should be the default > browser, the settings that were selected in > > gnome-default-applications-properties > > hold and the adverse symptoms are not seen. > > WORKAROUND: tell firefox "No" or to _not_ check to see if it is the > default browser after running gnome-default-applications-properties and > selecting it there. > > CONCLUSION: The gnome-default-applications-properties apparently gets > the binary in /usr/bin while FF itself bypasses this binary and goes > directly to the /usr/lib/ firefox instance. In this case the adverse > symptoms are seen. > > Bug somewhere, I presume FF since the > > gnome-default-applications-properties > > settings work OK and it accesses the binary in /usr/bin. > > More detail that you ever wanted to know follows. > <snip> BTW, I forgot to pull a basic check, so here it is. $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.5/firefox /usr/bin/firefox firefox-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.i386 firefox-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.i386 -- Bill