mplayerplug-in and mozilla_firefox woes

[Simon Barner]

dick hoogendijk wrote:
> After upgrading both mozilla and firefox to the latest builds (with
> portupgrade -rR firefox) I noticed movies don't play anymore (they used
> to with mplayerplug-in).
> 
> I reinstalled mozilla, firefox and also the mplayer (gtk, skin and
> plugin) without any result. Firefox starts the mplayerplug-in and then
> stops; mozilla just crashes with a core dump.
> 
> Does anybody know what could be the problem?
> Should I expect an update for the browsers (is it their fault?) or has
> something gone wrong in the relation between mplayerplug-in and the
> browsers? Or what?

Please provide more context:

 - FreeBSD version
 - Output of ls /var/db/pkg
 - Start the browser in an xterm an see if there are any error
   messages
 - ...

-- 
Best regards / Viele Grüße,                             barner at FreeBSD.org
 Simon Barner                                                barner at gmx.de
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