Firefox plugin sharing with Mozilla
Just downloaded and unpacked Firefox 0.8 to my /home directory. I have Mozilla 1.6 setup with Flash and Java plugins, and I'd like to point Firefox to those (/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins). Do I make a symbolic link from the Firefox plugins directory to the Mozilla one? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. --Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius
Just downloaded and unpacked Firefox 0.8 to my /home directory. I have Mozilla 1.6 setup with Flash and Java plugins, and I'd like to point Firefox to those (/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins). Do I make a symbolic link from the Firefox plugins directory to the Mozilla one?
Thanks.
-- Cheers, Trey ---
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. --Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius My GUESS is you want to treat your local ~/.mozilla directory as something of a shadow of the installation directory. There should be a plugins directory
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 February 2004 12:14 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: there. I believe that is where you should make you plugins visible to firefox. These folks may know more: http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=4 I haven't messed with plugins and firefox. I tend to use it when I just want a quick, no strings browser. It sure is slick. STH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALGmdH2SF0i7rrGwRAlAlAJ9rPyHE/iyoqZAQD1wVg8ifT+B3/ACdEsvo HABq6hvlHdl6hFcP7KznpJg= =q60c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Firefox to those (/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins). Do I make a symbolic link from the Firefox plugins directory to the Mozilla one? 'tis what I do. I wipe the plugins directory inside Firebird/Firefox's
On Friday 13 February 2004 07:14, Trey Sizemore wrote: directory, and make a symlink to the one in mozilla. The reason why I keep the mozilla one around is that many plugin installers find the mozilla direcotry, but not the others. Thus, if I upgrade Firebird I can wipe it's directory and just stick the new one in. Make the symlink and all's happy again. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 02:20, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Firefox to those (/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins). Do I make a symbolic link from the Firefox plugins directory to the Mozilla one? 'tis what I do. I wipe the plugins directory inside Firebird/Firefox's
On Friday 13 February 2004 07:14, Trey Sizemore wrote: directory, and make a symlink to the one in mozilla.
The reason why I keep the mozilla one around is that many plugin installers find the mozilla direcotry, but not the others. Thus, if I upgrade Firebird I can wipe it's directory and just stick the new one in. Make the symlink and all's happy again.
This always confuses me and 'man ln' doesn't make it much easier. Should it be ln -s <firefox plugin directory> <mozilla plugin directory>? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has not yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 02:20, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Firefox to those (/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins). Do I make a symbolic link from the Firefox plugins directory to the Mozilla one? 'tis what I do. I wipe the plugins directory inside Firebird/Firefox's
On Friday 13 February 2004 07:14, Trey Sizemore wrote: directory, and make a symlink to the one in mozilla.
The reason why I keep the mozilla one around is that many plugin installers find the mozilla direcotry, but not the others. Thus, if I upgrade Firebird I can wipe it's directory and just stick the new one in. Make the symlink and all's happy again.
This always confuses me and 'man ln' doesn't make it much easier. Should it be ln -s <firefox plugin directory> <mozilla plugin directory>?
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On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 06:59, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
ln [OPTION]... TARGET [LINK_NAME]
Create a link to the specified TARGET with optional LINK_NAME.
Your option is "-s" the rest should be easy TARGET is the actual file, while LINK_NAME is the pointer to the actual file
I tried the following with no success...I assume the wrong syntax. How would I go about fixing? ln -s /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/ /home/trey/firefox/plugins/ Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- No lake so still but that it has its wave; No circle so perfect but that it has a blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't, you must take them as they are. --Han fei Tzu
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 07:11 -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 06:59, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
ln [OPTION]... TARGET [LINK_NAME]
Create a link to the specified TARGET with optional LINK_NAME.
Your option is "-s" the rest should be easy TARGET is the actual file, while LINK_NAME is the pointer to the actual file
I tried the following with no success...I assume the wrong syntax. How would I go about fixing?
ln -s /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/ /home/trey/firefox/plugins/
The syntax is correct, the question is did you already have a directory named "plugins" in /home/trey/firefox when you ran it? If you did, you will have created a symlink inside that directory, making it /home/trey/ firefox/plugins/plugins -> /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins Delete it or rename it and then run the command again
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:19:11 +0100, "Anders Johansson"
The syntax is correct, the question is did you already have a directory named "plugins" in /home/trey/firefox when you ran it? If you did, you will have created a symlink inside that directory, making it /home/trey/ firefox/plugins/plugins -> /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins
Delete it or rename it and then run the command again
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Will do, thanks. -- Trey Sizemore trey@fastmail.fm
On Friday 13 February 2004 14:11, Trey Sizemore wrote:
I tried the following with no success...I assume the wrong syntax. How would I go about fixing?
ln -s /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/ /home/trey/firefox/plugins/
I think you should remove the trailing / after each. check my previous post - I copied that from the command line when I did it. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 06:52, Trey Sizemore wrote:
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 02:20, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Firefox to those (/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins). Do I make a symbolic link from the Firefox plugins directory to the Mozilla one? 'tis what I do. I wipe the plugins directory inside Firebird/Firefox's
On Friday 13 February 2004 07:14, Trey Sizemore wrote: directory, and make a symlink to the one in mozilla.
The reason why I keep the mozilla one around is that many plugin installers find the mozilla direcotry, but not the others. Thus, if I upgrade Firebird I can wipe it's directory and just stick the new one in. Make the symlink and all's happy again.
This always confuses me and 'man ln' doesn't make it much easier. Should it be ln -s <firefox plugin directory> <mozilla plugin directory>?
ln <file> <file> creates a "hard" link between files making each look as
though they are different files.
ln -s
On Friday 13 February 2004 13:52, Trey Sizemore wrote:
This always confuses me and 'man ln' doesn't make it much easier. Should it be ln -s <firefox plugin directory> <mozilla plugin directory>?
ls -s
On Friday 13 February 2004 12:14 am, Trey Sizemore wrote:
Just downloaded and unpacked Firefox 0.8 to my /home directory. I have Mozilla 1.6 setup with Flash and Java plugins, and I'd like to point Firefox to those (/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins). Do I make a symbolic link from the Firefox plugins directory to the Mozilla one?
Thanks.
-- Cheers, Trey ---
Trey, If you haven't mucked around with the plugins in your Mozilla plugins directory, then just copy the bloody things over to your Firefox plugins directory! The Mozilla files should already be symlinks and pointing to the real plugins, so just copy them! Lee -- --- KMail v1.6 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
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Trey Sizemore