Helper applications for Firefox

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 12:51 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I am having trouble specifying helper apps for firefox.
> 
> If I select "Browse..." and select /usr, I get a list of directories,
> but "local" is not listed. The list does include directories which are
> not (and never have been) present on the system. I see X11R6, bin, doc,
> etc, games, include, kerberos, lib, libexec, sbin, share, src, and
> tmp. Actually present are:
> X11R6/          games/          lib/            local/          sbin/
> bin/            home/           libdata/        obj/            share/
> compat/         include/        libexec/        ports/          src/
> 
> compat, home, libdata, local, obj and ports are missing from the firefox
> list, but it adds doc, kerberos, and tmp. Any idea where these come
> from? Is there something saved somewhere?
> 
> And, when I open X11R6/bin, there are no files shown.
> 
> Other Gnome apps (and I understand that Firefox is not REALLY a Gnome
> app) don't seem to behave like this.

Probably because you're using linux-firefox, and it's looking
at /compat/linux/usr.  If you use the native Firefox (i.e. the one this
list supports) you will get the desired behavior.
Joe

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