Re: A firefox secret

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On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 18:44 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 05/02/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > For those who didn't want to get involved with my rant here is a
> firefox
> > secret that is worth knowing.
> > > >
> > > Or ~/.mozilla/plugins or /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins or ....?  As
> someone
> > > just starting with Fedora Core 6, I had a difficult time getting
> the
> > > plugins installed and working, and then two time later updates
> messed me
> > > up, and the last time I am not sure what messed it up.  But
> because I am
> > > using my old 466Mhz Celeron with 256Mb of memory I don't want to
> waste
> > > developers time with a bugzilla against this old, slow, memory
> > > constrained system (even though it is more powerful that the CRAY
> that
> > > was used in the 60's.)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Les H
> > >
> > Now I will tell you a secret. If you go into about:config you will
> see
> > that the configuration:
> > browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions is set as true by
> > default. Only when it is set to false can you see what you want to
> see
> > in the: Edit->Preferences->downloads->view & Edit Actions.
> > With this set as true you are flying blind with plugins.  Why does
> > fedora not distribute this with the configuration set properly. How
> would you
> > know about this?
> 
> File a bug. It cerainly seems rediculous.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
Ok, I wanted to do what Dotan suggested. But firefox is not one of the
components you can file a request for in bugzilla. I would be interested
in a suggestion from the buglilla suporters.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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