On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 22:58 +0000, Ian Malone wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Ok, If you go to about:config in firefox 1.5.0.9 and make > > browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions > > false you can see the applications or plugins used by differnt types of > > files. > > > > However. here is the rub? if the plugin being used is Windows Media > > Player and the correct one is mozplugger how do you make that change. > > I can't see how it can be done. Anyone know the answer? > > > Delete the offending files? However, before you do that, > here are a few selections from my about:plugins > > DivX Browser Plug-In > File name: mplayerplug-in-dvx.so > mplayerplug-in 3.35 > > QuickTime Plug-in 6.0 / 7 > File name: mplayerplug-in-qt.so > mplayerplug-in 3.35 > > Windows Media Player Plugin > File name: mplayerplug-in-wmp.so > mplayerplug-in 3.35 > > mplayerplug-in 3.35 > File name: mplayerplug-in.so > mplayerplug-in 3.35 > > These are all part of the mplayerplug-in package, and > each one takes care of the mime types listed for it. > If you're seeing "Windows Media Player Plugin" then at > some point you have installed mplayerplug-in. Check > the package manager to see if it was installed as a > package and if so delete it. Otherwise track down the > files and remove them. > > If you want to maintain some functionality from > mplayerplug-in (say you only want mozplugger to handle > DivX mime types out of those above), then find the > files indicated in about:plugins corresponding to > the mime types you want to stop mplayerplug-in handling > and rename them to something that doesn't end in .so > (.so.bak being my preference). This way firefox won't > find them and will not register the components, so > another plugin will get a chance to handle those > mime types. > > -- > imalone Well this is a plan I guess. A drastic one but I will try it tomorrow. But that does not explain that all this works on my FC5 machine and mplayerplug-in is installed. This is what really bothers me. I have gotten all this to work in some way through probably 7 versions of Red Hat and Fedora Linux. And each time a different trick needs to be used. It is frustrating. > -- ======================================================================= "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you may work." ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
