On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 21:03 -0600, Hugh Brown wrote: > > Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > After rebooting to the latest kernel update, about:plugins says almost > > all of my Firefox plugins are gone (see attached). This is the second > > time this has happened (see my Dec 16 02:30PM). That time the problem > > miraculously went away when I upgraded and restarted Firefox. No such > > luck this time -- rebooting to the old kernel and removing & > > re-installing Firefox doesn't help. > > > > Firefox now says the 64-bit alpha Flash plug-in that was working > > perfectly yesterday is missing, > > although /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so is still there. > > > > --Doc Savage > > Fairview Heights, IL > > > > > The firefox plugin search path is defined in the /usr/bin/firefox start > up script. > > On a 32-bit system (or one where the exec perms are removed from > /usr/lib64/firefox-<version>/firefox ) the plugin path is > > MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.16/plugins > > On a 64-bit system it is > > MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins:/usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.16/plugins > > If the plugins aren't in those directories (or linked there), > about:plugins won't report. > > If you run firefox from a terminal, it may give you an idea about why it > isn't finding things. Otherwise, you can add "set -x" to the top of > /usr/bin/firefox and watch for MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH > > Hugh
Thanks Hugh. The second half of the 64-bit MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH doesn't exist on my system. The first contained everything but the 64-bit libflashplayer.so, I copied it to that folder. Still no joy. Checked the panel icon's properties and found it is still a call to 'htmlview %u'. As soon as I changed it to '/usr/bin/firefox', everything seems to work fine. Bug in htmlview? Happy holidays to everyone. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
