B. Stia wrote:

Hi SuSE people,

Fired up Firefox and went to a website that said it needed a flash plug-in. OK , let it download it. Plugin downloads and Firefox dies. Try to restart Firefox - nothing - just tries to restart and then just dies and never opens. Restart X -nope ! Reboot - nope!

What is this ????? How can a plugin kill an app like Firefox ???

Please help !!!!

Bob S.

You probably have your display set to 15 bit color. Try 16 and it should work. Hope this helps, Jim

I'd the same problem & solved it. Your firefox installation folder has a folder named plugins. There you'll find a symlink of libjavaplugin_oji.so. This links to /usr/lib/SunJava***/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so. Remove this link, and create a new symlink to /usr/lib/SunJava***/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so Hope it helps. On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:24:35 -0600, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

B. Stia wrote:

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Fired up Firefox and went to a website that said it needed a flash plug-in. OK , let it download it. Plugin downloads and Firefox dies. Try to restart Firefox - nothing - just tries to restart and then just dies and never opens. Restart X -nope ! Reboot - nope!

What is this ????? How can a plugin kill an app like Firefox ??? There are no 64 bit flash plugin. Are you running a 64 bit Firefox? Though it shouldn't cause what you see, if you are using a 64 bit Firefox, try uninstalling the 32 bit flash you installed and see if it fixes it. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871

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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:13:43 -0500, B. Stia wrote:

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:24, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

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What is this ????? How can a plugin kill an app like Firefox ???

There are no 64 bit flash plugin. Are you running a 64 bit Firefox? Though it shouldn't cause what you see, if you are using a 64 bit Firefox, try uninstalling the 32 bit flash you installed and see if it fixes it.

Joe, Yep, running 64 bit. Not so sure I uninstalled it correctly though. Other users didn't have the problem so I looked in ~.mozilla. Saw a plugins Directory and only the two flashplayer and libflashplayer files. Just renamed the directory and that fixed it. Can't leave it that way because there must be many other files scattered all over, and am curious as to why it installed there and if other plugins should be in there. How do I go about uninstalling it correctly? Came as a direct download from the website that said I needed it. Should have known better and never done that. I vowed to myself when I installed 9.2 I was not going to have a lot of weird unused file laying around again. Hmmm....so here I am again. :-(

Oguz, Are you referring to the /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib64/plugins directory ? Don't have those files in there. As a matter of fact I don't see them anywhere.

Jim, Already set at 16 bit.

Thanks to all for replying.

Bob S.

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The plug-ins are installed in 2 different ways: 1. if you have installed it logged in as user, they are installed only for that user. So, check ~/.mozilla/plugins and see if the files there are symlinks or real files. Delete them, and if they are links, delete thier original location as well. This will "unistall" them. 2. if you installed logged in as root, they are installed under /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib64/plugins. Same as 1, delete the links (and files) for flash. Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:37:54 -0500, B. Stia wrote:

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:31, Sunny wrote:

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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:13:43 -0500, B. Stia wrote:

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On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:24, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

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B. Stia wrote:

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What is this ????? How can a plugin kill an app like Firefox ???

Joe, Yep, running 64 bit. Not so sure I uninstalled it correctly though. Other users didn't have the problem so I looked in ~.mozilla. Saw a plugins Directory and only the two flashplayer and libflashplayer files. Just renamed the directory and that fixed it. Can't leave it that way because there must be many other files scattered all over, and am curious as to why it installed there and if other plugins should be in there. How do I go about uninstalling it correctly? Came as a direct download from the website that said I needed it. Should have known better and never done that. I vowed to myself when I installed 9.2 I was not going to have a lot of weird unused file laying around again. Hmmm....so here I am again. :-(

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The plug-ins are installed in 2 different ways: 1. if you have installed it logged in as user, they are installed only for that user. So, check ~/.mozilla/plugins and see if the files there are symlinks or real files. Delete them, and if they are links, delete thier original location as well. This will "unistall" them.

2. if you installed logged in as root, they are installed under /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib64/plugins. Same as 1, delete the links (and files) for flash.

Sunny

Thanks Sunny,

Will do. Are they the only two files that get installed?

In case 2, you may check in /usr/lib if there are some links to the same files, like from/ipt/Mozilla.../plugins. Otherwise (not completely sure, but I did not find anything else), all should be under the directory to which these links point. Sunny

Bob S.

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