On Thursday 02 February 2006 13:11, Lee Revell wrote: >On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 12:51 -0500, Brett McCoy wrote: >> Lee Revell wrote: >> > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:23 -0500, Dana Olson wrote: >> >>I am hoping Dapper shatters my expectations, considering >> >>they're pitting it against Vista and want it to be very extra >> >>polished. I guess time will tell. >> > >> > If they want to pit it against Vista they'd better get off their >> > butts and get streaming video in Firefox working. 75% of the time >> > I just get that damn "Plugin Finder" and then when I click it of >> > course "No suitable plugin could be found". >> > >> > Desktop Linux is a joke if stuff like this still won't work... >> >> mplayer-mozilla plugin seems to work for most things (even >> Quicktime). > >Hmm, I used to have that, but somehow it got uninstalled. > It gets 'uninstalled' everytime you upgrade firefox or mozilla because the friggin installer insists on a clean tree, so it deletes the old one including all your plugins. I finally said to hell with that crap and made a seperate plugins dir adjacent the the mozilla/firefox installs, and then when each new version is installed, do an lndir from the now clean plugins dir to the seperate one thats still there. It sure saves a lot of memory searching in foggy memory and the pissin & moanin that goes with it around here. If the mozilla/firefox folks knew just how big a pita that was, they'd recommend doing something like I did. Or figger out a way to save your plugins dir. >Still, this is not good - what the heck is the point of the "Plugin >Finder" in firefox then, if it isn't even aware of the package > manager? To install random binary codecs Windows style? I've seen it > hundreds of times and never once had it do anything useful. Me neither, its usless to linux users. But, amazingly firefox did actually go get, install and rerun itself a couple of days ago for some sort of an update. In nearly 2 years of having that automatic upgrade, thats a first! > >Lee -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
