[gentoo-user] Firefox now starting cxoffice/Wine for multimedia plugins?

2006-04-29 Thread Mark Knecht 

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?

mark  8874  0.0  0.1   7152  1532 ?S11:47   0:00
/bin/bash /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher
mark  8883 18.1  4.4 231712 45620 ?Sl   11:47   0:02
/usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin
mark  8889  0.6  0.1 2626576 1936 ?S11:47   0:00
/home/mark/cxoffice/bin/wine-preloader
/home/mark/cxoffice/bin/wine-pthread winewrapper.exe cxoffice --run --
pluginserver.exe --timeout 300
mark  8892  1.4  0.4   6320  4184 ?Ss   11:47   0:00
/home/mark/cxoffice/bin/wineserver
mark  8893  9.7  1.2 2124616 12356 ?   Sl   11:47   0:00
/home/mark/cxoffice/bin/wine-preloader
/home/mark/cxoffice/bin/wine-pthread pluginserver.exe --timeout 300


lightning ~ # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox netscape-flash

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.2  -debug +gnome
+ipv6 +java -mozdevelop -xinerama -xprint 37 kB
[ebuild   R   ] net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.63  0 kB

Total size of downloads: 37 kB
lightning ~ #

  Where might I look for how this is happening?

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox now starting cxoffice/Wine for multimedia plugins?

2006-04-29 Thread Tom Wesley 
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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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox now starting cxoffice/Wine for multimedia plugins?

2006-04-29 Thread Mark Knecht 

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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