On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 14:43 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
Seems to me I've probably only got one active 'global' (system wide) Firefox installation with others that have been superceded but not removed. Maybe you've got something similar going on?
Hello Carl, IIRC, I've only loaded Firefox with YaST, because I hate this kind of problem. But perhaps I've forgotten something.
The *lazy* way I've dealt with this ;-) is to just hunt down every 'Firefox' installation and make sure each */lib/plugins directory I find contains the identical set of symlinks pointing to the plug-ins installed under /usr/lib/browser-plug-ins
I'm not sure how to junt down Firefox installations. In terms of plugins directories, I have: ls /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins/ . libjavaplugin_oji.so mplayerplug-in-rm.so .. libnullplugin.so mplayerplug-in.so flashplayer.xpt mplayerplug-in-gmp.so mplayerplug-in-wmp.so libflashplayer.so mplayerplug-in-qt.so nphelix.so nphelix.xpt nppdf.so ls /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/ . libnullplugin.so mplayerplug-in-qt.so mplayerplug-in.so .. mplayerplug-in-gmp.so mplayerplug-in-rm.so mplayerplug-in-wmp.so ls /opt/mozilla/lib64/plugins/ . .. libnpflash.so libnullplugin.so mozplugger.so
Example:
(as root) cd /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins ln -s /usr/lib/browser-plugins/nppdf.so nppdf.so
Are you saying I should add symlinks to opt/mozilla/lib and /opt/mozilla/lib64? /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so/usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so is a 32-bit library, so I guess not?
Then comes an important final step which is truly a legacy mozilla quirk:
-> *whenever* you add/update/remove a plug-in from 'mozilla' or the various flavors, you need to find... somewhere under your user config directory (e.g. ~/.mozilla/*) a file called "pluginreg.dat". Make sure 'mozilla flavor' is closed completely and then delete this pluginreg.dat file. The next time 'mozilla flavor' loads it will re-register all the plug-ins it finds.
Try this and see if it works.
Well, I had: /home/dhoworth/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat /home/dhoworth/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat so I deleted them both, after checking Firefox wasn't running. But I still have the same problem. I'm tempted to just tell YaST to remove Firefox and Acrobat reader and then reinstall. Thanks for the help, Carl. Cheers, Dave