On Friday 25 November 2005 18:33, Amadeus W. M. wrote: >On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:03:36 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 25 November 2005 10:55, Amadeus W. M. wrote: >>>On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:37:34 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 23:47, Amadeus W. M. wrote: >>>>>On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:43:09 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>>>>> I need to see certain video for my studies. When I try to view >>>>>> them from the university's website, I am greeted with the error >>>>>> (translated): "MMS is not a registered protocol" >>>>>> >>>>>> How can I resolve this? I am on Firefox 1.0.7 with the mplayer >>>>>> plugin. I am open to using different browsers and/or plgins if >>>>>> neccassary. I have closely followed all the threads concerning >>>>>> mplayer in firefox for the past few months in anticipation of the >>>>>> need for this. However, none of them mention this. >>>>>> >>>>>> Dotan Cohen >>>>>> http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/biography/425/red_hot_chili_peppers. >>>>>>ph p Red Hot Chili Peppers Song Lyrics and Biography >>>>> >>>>>You may have tried this, but if you haven't... >>>>> >>>>>In firefox go to >>>>> >>>>>about:config >>>>> >>>>>then define (right click) 2 new types: >>>>> >>>>>network.protocol-handler.app.mms user set string mplayer >>>>>network.protocol-handler.external.mms user set boolean true >>>> >>>> Unforch, when copy/pasting the above, the format gets out of step >>>> with the data boxes, and there is no delete function. How do we >>>> fix that? >> >> [...] >> >>>You don't cut-and-paste. Right-click -> New string, value, etc. >>>For the other, new boolean, true, etc. >> >> Yes, so I found out. But the question was: how do I get rid of the >> bogus entries since there isn't a delete function? The copy/paste >> put it all in the name string. >> >> -- >> Cheers, Gene >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> 99.36% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly >> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above >> message by Gene Heskett are: >> Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. > >Sorry, now I see what you mean. I do find it silly that there is no >delete button. So do I, unreal. >Close the browser, then > >cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/????.default/ > >(use whatever you have instead of the ???). If you defined a preference >which you don't want, say bogus.preference, you will have a line > >user_pref("bogus.preference", ... etc. > >in prefs.js. Delete that. Again, the browser must be not running when > you do that. > >Then read the comments to the beginning of prefs.js, with a pointer to > how to set up preferences: > >http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs > >Apparently, we can/should have a user.js file with (extra?) > preferences. Thanks, and yes, sounds like a great idea. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.36% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
