A firefox secret

[Dotan Cohen]

On 05/02/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> For those who didn't want to get involved with my rant here is a firefox
> secret that is worth knowing.
> > >
> > 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
> in the: Edit->Preferences->downloads->view & Edit Actions.
> With this set as true you are flying blind with plugins.  Why does
> fedora not distribute this with the configuration set properly. How would you
> know about this?

File a bug. It cerainly seems rediculous.

Dotan Cohen

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