Flash no longer displayed in Firefox

[Beecher Rintoul]

On Saturday 10 December 2005 07:10 am, 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.

I'm running Firefox and don't have Mozilla on any of my boxes. The idea for 
the symlink was so plugins would install in the proper directory and save 
several steps in having to move them. Seems the proper thing would be to just 
remove the symlink after installing pluginwrapper. In a perfect world that 
port would just be patched to do the right install (including paths), but 
that is beyond my programming abilities.

Beech

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