making Ubuntu easy

[Scott]

On 05/24/2006 04:16 PM, * B spake thusly:
> 
> On 25 May 2006, at 00:12, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 18:19 -0400, Lukas Sabota wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 16:46 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 21:36 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
>>>>> The fact is that when a user tries to play an mp3, he should be given
>>>>> the option to install support (there is a spec on this), when a user
>>>>> tries to view a flash website, he should be given the option to
>>>>> install support, and so on, and so on.
>>>>
>>>> Already solved for Flash + Firefox.
>>>>
>>>> Lee
>>>>
>>>
>>> How so?
>>>
>>
>> If you visit a Flash page in Firefox but Flash is not installed you will
>> be prompted to install the plugin.
>>
>> Lee
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Sometimes tho this fails and needs to be done again. Confused me first
> time, and I'm not new to linux.
> 

The few times I'd tried it it failed as well.  I believe once it wasn't
able to because I was running as a user and not as root (that's what the
error message implied).

I only tried this method when I'd landed o a site with Flash and had
previously forgotten to install the flash plugin.



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