7.2R and Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash/Java - something odd I can't quite figure out...

[Kurt Buff]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 01:16, Tijl Coosemans <tijl at coosemans.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 29 November 2009 22:47:56 Kurt Buff wrote:
>> I've gotten Flash and Java going with Firefox, as root, using the
>> directions here:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
>>
>> However, I can't get it going as a standard user. When I run
>>
>>      'nspluginwrapper -v -a -i'
>>
>> I get the following:
>>
>>      Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
>>      Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
>>      Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin
>>      Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin
>>      Install plugin /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
>>       ... already installed system-wide, skipping
>>      Auto-install plugins from /home/kurt/.mozilla/plugins
>>      Looking for plugins in /home/kurt/.mozilla/plugins
>>
>> and 'about:plugins' only shows libnullplugin.so as enabled for all MIME types.
>>
>>      'nspluginwrapper -l'
>>
>> shows
>>
>>      /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
>>        Original plugin: /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
>>        Wrapper version string: 1.2.2
>
> Check the permissions on /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so


It's set to root:wheel - my account is a member of wheel.

Should it be something else?


Kurt