On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:23:45AM -0600, Mike Larson wrote: > Very interesting Todd. Thanks for yor help and input. I am still very > much a newbie and not well versed at all in scripting. This will be an > opportunity for me to learn something. :-) > > Meanwhile, I have found that although simply renaming the Flash files > seemed to stop Flash for a while it would reappear. I tracked down every > single libflash.so and ShockwaveFlash.class file I could find and > re-renamed them from libflash-off.so (I thought just adding -off might > be too similar) to xl.so and xs.class. No help... flash would not die. > > Finally, I created a new directory in /usr/local/mozilla and moved the > Flash files from /usr/local/mozilla/plugins to the new directory. That > seems to have done it. Flash was gone from Mozilla, but was still in > Phoenix. After doing the same process in /usr/local/phoenix Flash was > gone there also. I have no idea why renaming the files did not work. > Could the paths have been recreated somehow after closing and reopening > Mozilla, or rebooting? > > Thanks again for your help and ideas.
I noticed the same thing about renaming--I tried several different schemes. When I typed about:plugins in the address bar, I would get whatever I named it as the Flash and Shockwave plugins--weird, I thought. Like you, I ended up moving them to another directory (out of plugins), and that finally worked. The more I think about it, it makes more sense to just keep a copy of libflashplayer.so and ShockwaveFlash.class in one place, and copy it to your plugins when you want to use it, and remove it when you don't want it. That would work if you used several browsers or wanted it to work across several user accounts. I'm still scratching my head over why renaming doesn't work. Todd
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