On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 18:44 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 05/02/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > For those who didn't want to get involved with my rant here is a > firefox > > secret that is worth knowing. > > > > > > > Or ~/.mozilla/plugins or /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins or ....? As > someone > > > just starting with Fedora Core 6, I had a difficult time getting > the > > > plugins installed and working, and then two time later updates > messed me > > > up, and the last time I am not sure what messed it up. But > because I am > > > using my old 466Mhz Celeron with 256Mb of memory I don't want to > waste > > > developers time with a bugzilla against this old, slow, memory > > > constrained system (even though it is more powerful that the CRAY > that > > > was used in the 60's.) > > > > > > Regards, > > > Les H > > > > > Now I will tell you a secret. If you go into about:config you will > see > > that the configuration: > > browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions is set as true by > > default. Only when it is set to false can you see what you want to > see > > in the: Edit->Preferences->downloads->view & Edit Actions. > > With this set as true you are flying blind with plugins. Why does > > fedora not distribute this with the configuration set properly. How > would you > > know about this? > > File a bug. It cerainly seems rediculous. > > Dotan Cohen > Ok, I wanted to do what Dotan suggested. But firefox is not one of the components you can file a request for in bugzilla. I would be interested in a suggestion from the buglilla suporters. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
