Helper applications for Firefox

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:11:34 -0500
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> 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.

Doh!

So I have a choice of Flash support or helper apps, but not both.

Some day maybe linuxpluginwrapper will work on current again.

Thanks,
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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