firefox and video plugin

[leon]

Noah Dain <noahdain at gmail.com> writes:

 | On 12/23/05, Kim Briggs <patiodragon at gmail.com> wrote:
 | > On 12/22/05, leon <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
 | > > Your help is very much appreciated.
 | > >
 | > > Unfortunately breezy comes with firefox 1.0.7 which has empty file type
 | > > list and thus change action button is disabled.
 | > >
 | > Hi Leon,
 | >
 | > I find the same problem and had not discovered it because I added all
 | > of the extra funtionality through the Synaptec package manager
 | > (mplayer, etc).  I am able to edit this on my Windows version but not
 | > in Ubuntu? <*shrug shoulders*>.
 | >
 | > --
 | > http://kimbriggs.com
 | >
 | 
 | if all else fails, just remove the binary-plugin you don't want.
 | 
 | the file is: mplayerplug-in-rm.so
Uncheck the 'ra' in the 'plug-ins' is a better way to handle this.

 | it's probably under /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins or /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
 | 
 | if you are new to the mplayer plugin, expect mozilla/firefox to crash
 | after using it, sometimes when not even playing a vid.

True. Firefox still crashes a lot. But the mplayer plugin beats
gstream-plugin which is crap at the moment.

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