firefox3: where are hidden the plugins settings?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Oct 2 15:51:58 UTC 2008


Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

> hi,
> I want to view a conference which is broadcast via rtsp.
> If a make a realplay call, that works perfectly, but I'm unable
> to convince firefox to use realplayer:
> On 1 machine, it opens a totem plugin, on another one, it opens the
> mplayer plugin, and none of them works.
> What drives me crazy is that it's totally independant of any user's
> configuration: I get the same thing if I remove the .mozilla directory!
> It doesn't come either from mozplugger: same results if I remove
> /etc/mozpluggerc.
> I  also checked that it doesn't come from mailcap/mime.types.
> 
> So,  where are hidden these damned plugins settings?
 
No idea, but is it possible that both machines don't have both totem and
mplayer, so that there's no real difference in the way firefox searches for
the plugins, just in what it finds?
-- 
derek





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