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On Thursday 02 February 2006 13:11, Lee Revell wrote:

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>On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 12:51 -0500, Brett McCoy wrote:

>> Lee Revell wrote:

>> > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:23 -0500, Dana Olson wrote:

>> >>I am hoping Dapper shatters my expectations, considering

>> >>they're pitting it against Vista and want it to be very extra

>> >>polished. I guess time will tell.

>> >

>> > If they want to pit it against Vista they'd better get off their

>> > butts and get streaming video in Firefox working.  75% of the time

>> > I just get that damn "Plugin Finder" and then when I click it of

>> > course "No suitable plugin could be found".

>> >

>> > Desktop Linux is a joke if stuff like this still won't work...

>>

>> mplayer-mozilla plugin seems to work for most things (even

>> Quicktime).

>

>Hmm, I used to have that, but somehow it got uninstalled.

>

It gets 'uninstalled' everytime you upgrade firefox or mozilla because

the friggin installer insists on a clean tree, so it deletes the old

one including all your plugins.

I finally said to hell with that crap and made a seperate plugins dir

adjacent the the mozilla/firefox installs, and then when each new

version is installed, do an lndir from the now clean plugins dir to the

seperate one thats still there.  It sure saves a lot of memory

searching in foggy memory and the pissin & moanin that goes with it

around here.
If the mozilla/firefox folks knew just how big a pita that was, they'd

recommend doing something like I did.  Or figger out a way to save your

plugins dir.
>Still, this is not good - what the heck is the point of the "Plugin

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>Finder" in firefox then, if it isn't even aware of the package

> manager? To install random binary codecs Windows style?  I've seen it

> hundreds of times and never once had it do anything useful.

Me neither, its usless to linux users.  But, amazingly firefox did

actually go get, install and rerun itself a couple of days ago for some

sort of an update.  In nearly 2 years of having that automatic upgrade,

thats a first!

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>Lee

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