[CentOS] Google Hangout Plugin Does Not Work For Other Users
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr
Tue Jul 1 06:54:58 UTC 2014
On 06/30/2014 11:58 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I've got the Google Talk plugin installed at:
<snip>
> When I start of join a Google Hangout all works as expected for me.
>
> When another user on my system tries to start/join a Hangout she gets an
> error telling her that the plugin is not installed.
>
> When I check "about:plugins" under her login it says that the plugin is
> installed in the same location/version.
>
> I checked the file access settings and found all is set as expected,
> 755, on the plugin and it's directories all the was down to root.
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 273496 Jun 7 17:38 libnpgoogletalk.so
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 229784 Jun 7 17:38 libnpo1d.so
>
> Shouldn't this work system wide?
>
> If I try to install the plugin as firefox seems to think I should I'm
> told that I already have the pluging installed, which is true.
>
> Does anyone have a clue why it's refusing to start?
Yes it should work system-wide. I assume you installed from google's yum
repo (or at least using an rpm)?
I'ld suspect some problem in her profile/prefs.
Create a new user account and see if it works.
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