[opensuse] Firefox plugins, e.g. Flashplayer, not being seen
I am not sure when it happened, but I am running Firefox 2.0.0.4-8.3 in Suse 10.1 (upgraded this past week) and "about:plugins" shows only: KDE Parts Plugin DjVuLibre-3.5.16 OpenOffice.org Plug-in If I move .mozilla/ to .mozilla_save and start fresh, "about:plugins" shows only: KDE Parts Plugin DjVuLibre-3.5.16 But it previously could see all these plugins in /usr/lib/browser-plugins: flashplayer.xpt mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt kaffeineplugin.so mplayerplug-in-qt.so mplayerplug-in.xpt libflashplayer.so mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt nphelix.so libjavaplugin_oji.so mplayerplug-in-rm.so nphelix.xpt mplayerplug-in-dvx.so mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt nppdf.so mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt mplayerplug-in.so mplayerplug-in-gmp.so mplayerplug-in-wmp.so I noticed it, because I couldn't play Flash. So, I tried to reinstall the Flash plugin with Yast, but that didn't help. Any ideas how to make Firefox see /usr/lib/browser-plugins? -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos F Lange wrote:
Any ideas how to make Firefox see /usr/lib/browser-plugins?
Not all browsers are compatible with all plugins versions. of course (?) openSUSE ones should be :-) anyway, there are several places for plugins: in .mozilla/plugins in <basename>/plugins where <basename> is the folder of the mozilla flavor you have (I use mozilla, seamonkey, firefox... several versions) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun June 24 2007 11:49, jdd wrote:
Carlos F Lange wrote:
Any ideas how to make Firefox see /usr/lib/browser-plugins?
Not all browsers are compatible with all plugins versions.
of course (?) openSUSE ones should be :-)
anyway, there are several places for plugins:
in .mozilla/plugins in <basename>/plugins where <basename> is the folder of the mozilla flavor you have (I use mozilla, seamonkey, firefox... several versions)
Exactly what I mean. /usr/lib/browser-plugins is where the Suse rpm for the Flashplayer plugin gets saved and where all the others are, too. My own ~/.mozilla/plugins had only one symbolic link to /usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/libnpsoplugin.so, which showed up in "about:plugins", so I created links to all the plugins in /usr/lib/browser-plugins, but even that did not help Firefox to load them after a restart. At the office I have Firefox 2.0.0.1 with all the plugins as I had before at home and there Firefox loads the complete set of plugins. The version that seems to be broken (2.0.0.4-8.3) is from http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/SUSE_Linux_10.1/ and is from June 20, 2007. -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos F Lange wrote:
"about:plugins", so I created links to all the plugins
plugins are a special thing... I have a perfectly working firefox install on 10.2 on one computer and a non working (for some kind of flash files) version on my 10.1 and copying the plugins did no good for any of my 4/5 mozilla flavors copies :-( some plugins _need_ to be inserted with a link others _have_ to be physically presents... (I have many copies to test internet sites against several browsers, I have alos 5 IE copies :-)) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos F Lange schrieb: A 'rm -r ~/.mozilla/plugins/' combined with 'ln - s /usr/lib/browser-plugins ~/.mozilla/plugins' worked for me. thx jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun June 24 2007 14:53, Jan Tiggy wrote:
Carlos F Lange schrieb:
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'rm -r ~/.mozilla/plugins/' combined with 'ln - s /usr/lib/browser-plugins ~/.mozilla/plugins'
worked for me.
I tried this and even rebooted, but now Firefox only sees the two plugins (KDE Parts Plugin, DjVuLibre-3.5.16) that it saw without any ~/.mozilla/plugins. It is as if this directory didn't exist. But it is readable to world and ls -lL shows everything as normal. -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi, Carlos F Lange wrote:
On Sun June 24 2007 14:53, Jan Tiggy wrote:
Carlos F Lange schrieb:
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'rm -r ~/.mozilla/plugins/' combined with 'ln - s /usr/lib/browser-plugins ~/.mozilla/plugins'
worked for me.
I tried this and even rebooted, but now Firefox only sees the two plugins (KDE Parts Plugin, DjVuLibre-3.5.16) that it saw without any ~/.mozilla/plugins. It is as if this directory didn't exist. But it is readable to world and ls -lL shows everything as normal.
Just a cross check: Do you run a 64bit version of SUSE Linux 10.1 and maybe a 64bit version of Firefox? Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun June 24 2007 23:17, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
I tried this and even rebooted, but now Firefox only sees the two plugins (KDE Parts Plugin, DjVuLibre-3.5.16) that it saw without any ~/.mozilla/plugins. It is as if this directory didn't exist. But it is readable to world and ls -lL shows everything as normal.
Just a cross check: Do you run a 64bit version of SUSE Linux 10.1 and maybe a 64bit version of Firefox?
Arghh! How stupid of me. That was it. It's a 64 bit Suse machine and up until now I have been carefully selecting the version i586 (32bit) of MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-translations and mozilla-nss when installing and updating, but this time I slept on the wheel and didn't even check. Sure enough when I last updated, the version x86_64 was selected by default and replaced my 32bit version. It was just a matter of selecting the right version and marking those packages for upgrade again and now all plugins show up. Thanks for waking me up, Wolfgang! -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos F Lange wrote:
Sure enough when I last updated, the version x86_64 was selected by default and replaced my 32bit version.
but may be this shouldn't happen... the update should never change a version for an other unrelated version (no 64 bits can be seen as update of 32 bits...) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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