Flash no longer displayed in Firefox

[Gary Kline]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 05:10:21PM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:36:28 -0800
> "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Good information!  To automate this with portmanager you can add
> > the following two lines to pm-020.conf:
> > 
> > #below must be on one line
> > STOP|/www/linuxpluginwrapper rm
> > STOP|-R /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins && ln 
> > -s /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins|
> 
> YEAH, the information is good, except for the symlinked browser_plugins.
> You should not do this. That is, when I'd done this this week, mozilla
> wouldn't start anymore. Error 76 on X. It stook me quite some time to
> find out that the symlinked plugins dir was to blame. I removed the
> browser_linux_plugins and mozilla worked again. All plugins just are in
> browser_plugins. Having a REAL browser_linux_plugin dir does not harm
> the system.
> 

	Ya know, I'm almost to the point where I'd pay real money to
	be able to play  real, windows, and mp? files ((audioo))
	with mozilla andor firefox.  It's hopeless.  Even on my 
	ubuntu testbox, the config messes up. When realplayer can
	play dog/doze media, they get 5 gold stars.

	(*sigh*)

	gary




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