Hi gurus I have a CentOS 5.2 current x86_64 that has Thunderbird and Firefox working well for one user account (my wife) but will not play nice for my account. I have uninstalled thunderbird and firefox (via yum) and re-installed - no change. I have just wiped the .mozilla folder and started afresh, but it still shows no plugins, yet the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ has the libflashplayer.so link etc. How does all this stuff get hooked up. I have previously installed firefox direct from their site and not used the CentOS supplied rpm, but now that RH say the light and provides a current version, I use the yum process to get my firefox installed. Everything was working a week or so ago, but when I tried fixing things yesterday, all went rapidly pear shaped. In firefox I pressed the Check Now button under Firefox > Preferences > Advanced > System Defaults and now its gone and lost all my plugins Any idea how to get them back? Looking on the support.mozilla.com/firefox site provides little linux help and seems oriented to windoze users. Appreciate some insight from those who know how this distro hangs it all together. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 125 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090225/8774ca56/attachment.vcf
Noob Centos Admin
2009-Feb-26 05:35 UTC
[CentOS] Firefox plugins gone (but only for one user)
2009/2/26 Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>:> Hi gurus > I have a CentOS 5.2 current x86_64 that has Thunderbird and Firefox working > well for one user account (my wife) but will not play nice for my account.Have you tried creating a new profile (not new Linux account) in Firefox and see if the new profile will work with new installs of the plugins? In Windows, profile manager starts by running firefox -profilemanager, not sure exactly if the same works in Linux or you gotta to a firefox --profilemanager.
William L. Maltby
2009-Feb-26 10:22 UTC
[CentOS] Firefox plugins gone (but only for one user)
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 23:17 -0500, Rob Kampen wrote:> Hi gurus > I have a CentOS 5.2 current x86_64 that has Thunderbird and Firefox > working well for one user account (my wife) but will not play nice for > my account. > I have uninstalled thunderbird and firefox (via yum) and re-installed - > no change. > I have just wiped the .mozilla folder and started afresh, but it still > shows no plugins, yet the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ has the > libflashplayer.so link etc. > > How does all this stuff get hooked up. > > I have previously installed firefox direct from their site and not used > the CentOS supplied rpm, but now that RH say the light and provides a > current version, I use the yum process to get my firefox installed. > Everything was working a week or so ago, but when I tried fixing things > yesterday, all went rapidly pear shaped. > In firefox I pressed the Check Now button under Firefox > Preferences > > Advanced > System Defaults and now its gone and lost all my pluginsIn the other thread about this to which I replied, I tried to make clear that this is the cause of the pluginreg.dat being trashed. You want to have NOT checked the check now and/or make it the default. Gnome has a script that can set this. Someone else posted it in another thread, but I can''t remember it. Also, the Gnome menus System->Preferences->More Preferences->Preferred Applications->Web Browser can be used to set it. Once you select Firefox, the command box should have "firefox %s". Once this is set, starting FF should make a new pluginreg.dat if you removed the previous one, IIRC. In FF, edit preferences will get you to a place where you can fine tune the plugin configuration.> <snip>I''m going from memory here. Search the CentOS archives for a previous thread about this to find all the gory details. A search with my name, and pluginreg and/or firefox outght to get you to it quickly. HTH -- Bill
Noob Centos Admin wrote:> 2009/2/26 Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>: > >> Hi gurus >> I have a CentOS 5.2 current x86_64 that has Thunderbird and Firefox working >> well for one user account (my wife) but will not play nice for my account. >> > > Have you tried creating a new profile (not new Linux account) in > Firefox and see if the new profile will work with new installs of the > plugins? In Windows, profile manager starts by running firefox > -profilemanager, not sure exactly if the same works in Linux or you > gotta to a firefox --profilemanager. >Well, that works, I ignored the default profile, asked to create a new one and hey presto plugins are back. Thanks I do not know why deleting my .mozilla/ directory didn''t do it the first time. However this does not fix it for the firefox started from the gnome panel - it still has no plugins. I deleted the default profile, it warns that it will delete all the files in the .mozilla/ folder but still no good...... Still something wrong??? So now I have to launch firefox with firefox --profilemanager ?? Confused, why so complicated!!> _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090226/a6dbbc09/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 125 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090226/a6dbbc09/attachment.vcf
William L. Maltby wrote:> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 23:17 -0500, Rob Kampen wrote: > >> Hi gurus >> I have a CentOS 5.2 current x86_64 that has Thunderbird and Firefox >> working well for one user account (my wife) but will not play nice for >> my account. >> I have uninstalled thunderbird and firefox (via yum) and re-installed - >> no change. >> I have just wiped the .mozilla folder and started afresh, but it still >> shows no plugins, yet the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ has the >> libflashplayer.so link etc. >> >> How does all this stuff get hooked up. >> >> I have previously installed firefox direct from their site and not used >> the CentOS supplied rpm, but now that RH say the light and provides a >> current version, I use the yum process to get my firefox installed. >> Everything was working a week or so ago, but when I tried fixing things >> yesterday, all went rapidly pear shaped. >> In firefox I pressed the Check Now button under Firefox > Preferences > >> Advanced > System Defaults and now its gone and lost all my plugins >> > > In the other thread about this to which I replied, I tried to make clear > that this is the cause of the pluginreg.dat being trashed. You want to > have NOT checked the check now and/or make it the default. Gnome has a > script that can set this. Someone else posted it in another thread, but > I can''t remember it. Also, the Gnome menus System->Preferences->More > Preferences->Preferred Applications->Web Browser can be used to set it. > Once you select Firefox, the command box should have "firefox %s". > >Yes, I needed to edit the Preferred Applications, somehow it was set to custom and did not pick up my plugins. I have just selected the firefox icon and all appears to work.> Once this is set, starting FF should make a new pluginreg.dat if you > removed the previous one, IIRC. > > In FF, edit preferences will get you to a place where you can fine tune > the plugin configuration. > > >> <snip> >> > > I''m going from memory here. Search the CentOS archives for a previous > thread about this to find all the gory details. A search with my name, > and pluginreg and/or firefox outght to get you to it quickly. > > HTH >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090226/9a353516/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 125 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090226/9a353516/attachment.vcf