On Mon 12 Mar 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 19:11 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > 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? > > > > Er ... where does one change this configuration entry? > > In firefox go to about:confiug. You will see the config parameters and > their values. Scxroll down to: > browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions > and change its value. Thanks. I had actually tried this unsuccessfully, but I see now that double-clicking on this toggles the value true/false. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
