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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090226/9a353516/attachment-0005.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 125 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090226/9a353516/attachment-0005.vcf>