firefox not offering the right plugins

[Robert Nichols]

Matt Morgan wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2005 11:32 AM, jim lawrence <fedorajim at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Apr 1, 2005 10:42 AM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>When I looks at Edit--Preferences--Downloads, I see a list of plugins
>>>that looks like this:
>>>
>>>PDF     PDF File                    acroread
>>>            Windows WMV File        gmplayer
>>>DOC     DOC File                   openoffice.org-1.9
>>>
>>>That is what I want, and it reflects what I have set by checking the
>>>"always use this from now on" checkbox, when offered the option.
>>>
>>>But when I click on a link for a wmv, firefox offers totem as the
>>>default; when I click on a PDF, it offers kpdf as the default; and
>>>when I click on a DOC it offers oowriter (v 1.1.3) as the default. I
>>>have to go search for the app I really want every time.
>>>
>>>So it looks like Firefox is writing to one settings file, but reading
>>>from another. This is Firefox 1.02, installed and updated regularly
>>>via yum. I only noticed the problem pretty recently, maybe in the last
>>>month or two. Maybe it's related to a recent firefox update?
>>>
>>>Any suggestions? I tried grepping through ~/.mozilla/firefox for any
>>>files containing "totem," just to see if I could change the list of
>>>helper apps manually, but I couldn't find anything that included totem
>>>in the first place.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Matt
>>>
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>>
>>For giggles in your browser  type in the address  about:plugins
>>See if you have mplayer  if not
>>yum install mplayerplug-in
>>
>>if you don't usse totum just remove it
> 
> 
> Thanks. Mplayer is installed and working. I realize I was pretty
> unclear about this, now, but literal "plugins" work. That is, when
> something is embedded in the html page, mplayerplug-in plays it fine.
> It's when it's a direct link just to the file (whether .pdf, .wmv.
> .avi, .doc, or whatever) that Firefox doesn't handle it the way it
> says it will. What we used to call "helper apps" don't get offered up
> according to what Firefox says it will do. It says it will default to
> openoffice.org-1.9, but then it defaults to oowriter (1.1.3) instead.

Does this sound like what you are seeing?

     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151993

If visiting the "about:plugins" page makes direct links to .wmv (etc.)
files work for you, please add a comment to the above bug report.

-- 
Bob Nichols         rnichols42 at comcast.net