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On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:39:18AM +1300, Dave Cameron wrote |
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> Hi All, |
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> I'm running Gentoo on a SunBlade 100 SPARC machine, and so can't |
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> install Sun Java or "Macromedia crap". Does anyone know how/if you |
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> can disable the plugin popup on Epiphany and Firefox, it's really |
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> frustrating to have these constant nags, especially(sic) since I |
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> can't install these binary-only plugins, both because of my social |
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> conscience, and because of my platform, I would much appreciate it |
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> if someone knew. |
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It's a two-step process... |
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1) Plugins used to be stored in /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins. That's |
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now being deprecated in favour of /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins. For |
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the time being, assume that both directories are valid. Anyhow, go into |
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those directories and rename or remove libnullplugin.so. When Firefox |
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tries to load a plugin, and can't find it, it defaults to libnullplugin.so |
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which generates the plugin popup. Removing libnullplugin.so gets rid of |
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the plugin popup. |
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2) If you do just that, Firefox will then display a little strip |
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across the top, in place of the plugin popup, telling you that you're |
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missing a required plugin, and the page may not display as intended... |
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blah...blah...blah. It's slightly less annoying, but annoying |
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nevertheless. To get rid of that, go into about:config and change |
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plugin.default_plugin_disabled to false. |
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You'll have to repeat step 1 each time you update Firefox or Mozilla |
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or whatever browser. I don't remember if I had to reset about:config |
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after updating. |
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> On the lines of Java, why doesn't sun make Java for Linux on Sun? |
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Because Sun is at war with linux, just like Microsoft is at war with |
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linux. Sun Java for linux fits in with their plans about as much as |
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MS-Office-for-linux fits in with Microsoft's plans. Sun wants to sell |
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expensive Sparc machines running expensive Solaris. Cheap commodity |
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machines running free linux are eating their market alive, even moreso |
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than MS' market. It's *MUCH* easier to transition from a unix-based |
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Solaris to a unix-like linux than from Windows to linux. |
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> and what is the best Free-Software JVM. |
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http://www.blackdown.org calls itself "The home of Java on Linux!". |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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