[25425] in Athena Bugs
Re: mozilla plugin path overrides?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Mon Jan 12 12:16:31 2004
Message-Id: <200401121716.i0CHGPVn003515@red-herring.mit.edu>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:43:26 EST."
<200401121643.i0CGhQV0027931@anhedonia.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:16:25 -0500
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@mit.edu>
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: bugs@mit.edu
cc: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
> 2) My understanding was that users *do* set MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH, in order
> to load additional (or different versions of) plugins.
(This may be more a matter for olc-stock than for bugs, but since it
came up...)
It would be nifty to have a list of which common plugins/versions aren't
installed on Athena, and instructions for installing them if you care.
Users seem to come to OLC once in a while with "I downloaded this plugin
and it doesn't work" and it would be nice to distinguish between:
* You need to follow these steps to make it work on both platforms;
it can't be installed for everybody for <bogus licensing reason>.
* That's known to be horribly broken, give up.
* It's already there and you broke your configs somehow.
Or should we just ask what to do about it, next time a user shows up
with one of these? A quick dsgrep doesn't find a handy case, but I do
remember it happening from time to time.
