On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:31, Sunny wrote:
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:13:43 -0500, B. Stia <usr@sanctum.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:24, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
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. :-(
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? Bob S.