firefox not offering the right plugins
jim lawrence
fedorajim at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 16:32:01 UTC 2005
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
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Jim Lawrence
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