OK, I've got a weird one here... I installed Firefox on my YDL 4.0.1 system a while ago, and I've been quite happy with it. But in the process of testing out whether the Flash plugins I had installed were working or not, I wanted to get my old version of Mozilla running. Well, here's where it gets strange: "Web Browser" in the KMenu, which used to correspond to Mozilla, now launches Firefox. (There is a separate listing for Firefox in KMenu). So I try adding an application button to the panel, but since this is based on the listings in KMenu...well, you guessed it, there seems to be no way to get Mozilla running. I guess I'll try using yum to remove and then reinstall Mozilla.
Anyway, is this some sort of bug in Firefox? There have been some weird ones, like the one in the x86 version where you can't open a new tab when right-clicking on a link. I think the Flash plugins I installed are working OK (is there anything on the net that *doesn't* use Flash?!), but I noticed while rooting around in a terminal that Mozilla doesn't seem to have a plugins folder; /usr/bin/mozilla had a couple items in it (I think part of Helix Player, e.g. nphelix.so and nphelix.xpt), but no subdirectories for plugins. Though there is a /usr/bin/plugins, which seems to be a general plugins directory. Does everything share this directory? I also noticed that my home mozilla directory (~/.mozilla) has nothing plugin-related except "pluginreg.dat" and a similar one farther in for Firefox (~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat). I take it this is one of the differences between Fedora and Debian? Because my x86 work machine (which runs Debian) has quite a different directory structure. On that machine, you must install plugins separately for each app. I think for Mozilla it's /usr/bin/mozilla/plugins or something. Anyway, for now I copied (in a terminal as root) the plugins from the Adobe Flash download into /usr/bin/plugins and /usr/bin/mozilla, and I also installed the Flash animation plugins using Synaptic. I should add that the Adobe installer for the Flash browser plugin apparently isn't smart enough to run on anything except x86; I had to do my installation manually. At least they provide some instructions on this in a README file. Thanks, -PRH _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
