FC6 through the rear view mirror - a truth

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 03:07 -0800, Les wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 18:34 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 20:06 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > > On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:07:23 -0700
> > > Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > By the way - Item 6 - firefox plugins aren't part of fedora packaging
> > > 
> > > Yea, but building firefox so it's tool that downloads plugins believes
> > > it ought to install them in the directory firefox actually looks in is
> > > part of the packaging :-).
> > ----
> > huh?
> > 
> > As a user, it installs plugins in your user directory
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> Or ~/.mozilla/plugins or /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins or ....?  As someone
> just starting with Fedora Core 6, I had a difficult time getting the
> plugins installed and working, and then two time later updates messed me
> up, and the last time I am not sure what messed it up.  But because I am
> using my old 466Mhz Celeron with 256Mb of memory I don't want to waste
> developers time with a bugzilla against this old, slow, memory
> constrained system (even though it is more powerful that the CRAY that
> was used in the 60's.)
> 
> Regards,
> Les H
> 
Now I will tell you a secret. If you go into about:config you will see
that the configuration: 
browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions is set as true by
default. Only when it is set to false can you see what you want to see
it the: Edit->Preferences->downloads->view & Edit Actions.
With this set as true you are flying blind with plugins.  Why does not
fedora distribute this with the configuration set properly. Hos wold you
know about this.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>