Re: Firefox plugins

johnny wrote:
> I successfully installed 2 extensions (for PDF files and IDND) on my
> laptop running Mandriva 2005LE but the same 2 extensions won't work on my
> desktop running Mandriva 2005LE. When I look at the extensions on the
> desktop (Tools->Extensions), the extensions are listed but it gives the
> message that the extensions will be installed after a browser restart.
> Well, I closed all running instances of firefox (version 1.0.7) but the 
> extensions still don't work after restarting firefox. I get the same
> message about restarting the browser to install the extensions. Any ideas?
> I suppose I could restart the X server and, if that don't work, restart
> the PC.

Open a terminal and type:

ps ax

see if you have any firefox processes running after you have turned off FF.
If you still have some listed there, kill them either with kill or killall,
the first one takes the process id-number as argument (you can have more than
one in the same line), while the second takes the name of the process. Using
the option -9 will force most programs to die, eg

kill -9 4233 4235 4240


or

killall -9 firefox-bin


Not sure if firefox does use it's own directory structure or the same as
Mozilla, but for mozilla you see to have the plugins in ~/.mozilla/plugins if
you want them for one user, while if you want them for all users, you usually
have them in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (things can be slightly different
depending on distro).



 //Aho