[25424] in Athena Bugs
Re: mozilla plugin path overrides?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Mon Jan 12 11:44:38 2004
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:43:26 -0500
Message-Id: <200401121643.i0CGhQV0027931@anhedonia.mit.edu>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: "[25416] in Athena Bugs"
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: bugs@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
A few points...
1) As Greg indicated, the Flash plugin is not big, so should not present
a significant performance penalty. It was feasible to install the
Java plugin locally, both for performance and because it is packaged
nicely on both platforms.
2) My understanding was that users *do* set MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH, in order
to load additional (or different versions of) plugins.
3) In a "typical" installation, system-wide plugins would be installed
in Mozilla's plugins directory, where the user could not disable them.
That is why I did not bother to provide an override for MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH.
4) I plan to update the Flash plugin soon. If people feel that the
general issue still needs to be addressed, we can consider adding an
override variable to the wrapper.
Bob
