Re: Firefox plugins

On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 20:07:55 +0100, J.O. Aho wrote:

> 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

I had to remove and reinstall firefox.