[CentOS] Thunderbird and Firefox

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:38 -0500, Rob Kampen wrote:
> I have two CentOS plus x86_64 workstations that as far as possible I am 
> trying to keep the same. One for home, one for my office. I have the 32 
> bit Firefox installed along with a number of plugins and have just found 
> that firefox no longer plays any shockwave content on my work machine, I 
> have tried disabling the various quicktime, mplayer, realplayer plugins 
> but still no go. Removed firefox and re-installed (via yumex) still no 
> go........
> Any other things I can do?
> 
> Then on my home machine I have lost the ability to click on a http:// 
> link within Thunderbird and have it open the link in Firefox. This works 
> fine on the office machine. It is annoying to have to copy and paste the 
> link to get it to work.

I don't know if this is related, but JIC ...

I discovered (the hardway) that if the preference to have FF check and
set itself as the default browser is checked, the pluginreg.dat is
effectively "emptied". This caused symptoms similar to what you
describe (IIRC?).

Once I unchecked that option, all worked as expected.

There's a long thread in the archives, but I'm too lazy to find it.

> 
> I have other CentOS machines (x86) where all this works just fine......
> 
> Any pointers to get me heading in the right direction?
> thanks
> Rob
> <snip sig stuff>

HTH
-- 
Bill