On 4/29/06, Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:04:01 -0700
"Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I think this has possibly been going on for a few weeks but I just
> noticed it and I'm not sure what caused it. Yahoo is my homepage.
> Apparently there is enough multimedia stuff - Flash or whatever - on
> that page that Firefox needs to run so something, so it appears to
> start up Wine via cxoffice to manage plugin requirements? Very
> strange!
>
> Possibly this is some search path issue? Not sure. I did recently
> reinstall CXOffice. MAybe that caused it?
>
There is no native shockwave player for Linux. It's possible that
cxoffice has installed something that makes the Yahoo! homepage think
that shockwave is available and therefore use it. Put about:plugins in
the address bar and see what you have laying around.
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Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Tom,
Thanks. Good call about how to look at it. Wrong technology. It
seems that Firefox thinks it's supposed to run a Crossover plugin for
Quicktime stuff. I also have mplayerplug-in installed and Firefox sees
it, but it's also running one or more of the many Quicktime plugins
when Firefox is open.
QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1 (CrossOver - npqtplugin.dll)
QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1 (CrossOver - npqtplugin2.dll)
QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1 (CrossOver - npqtplugin3.dll)
QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1 (CrossOver - npqtplugin4.dll)
QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1 (CrossOver - npqtplugin5.dll)
QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1 (CrossOver - npqtplugin6.dll)
QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1 (CrossOver - npqtplugin7.dll)
It seems each of these handles many file types.
I know nothing about how Firefox uses plugins. Where are they
stored? How do you configure Firefox to use the right plugin if two or
more say they can handle the same data type?
It seems I have lots of copies of the first one hanging around:
lightning ~ # slocate npqtplugin.dll
/home/mark/.mozilla/plugins/npcxoffice-2342cc1f-8879-4315-ae68-87d5a37a9daf.linux.npqtplugin.dll.so
/home/mark/.mozilla/plugins/npcxoffice-2342cc1f-8879-4315-ae68-87d5a37a9daf.linux64.npqtplugin.dll.so
/home/mark/.cxoffice/win2000/drive_c/Program
Files/Netscape/Communicator/Program/Plugins/npqtplugin.dll
/home/mark/.cxoffice/win2000/drive_c/Program
Files/QuickTime/Plugins/npqtplugin.dll
/home/mark/.cxoffice/win2000/desktopdata/cxnsplugin/linux/npqtplugin.dll.so
/home/mark/.cxoffice/win2000/desktopdata/cxnsplugin/linux64/npqtplugin.dll.so
/home/mark/.netscape/plugins/npcxoffice-2342cc1f-8879-4315-ae68-87d5a37a9daf.linux.npqtplugin.dll.so
/home/mark/.netscape/plugins/npcxoffice-2342cc1f-8879-4315-ae68-87d5a37a9daf.linux64.npqtplugin.dll.so
lightning ~ #
Thanks,
Mark
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