Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[Sunny <sloncho@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:37:54 -0500, B. Stia <usr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:31, Sunny wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:13:43 -0500, B. Stia <usr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:24, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> > > > B. Stia wrote:
> > >
> > > ..............<snip >
> > >
> > > > >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.   :-(
> 
> > 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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