sjaglin Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Sorry, I think this was a previous topic but can t find nor remember it. A quick Google and I m still not happy bunny! I installed recently Firefox 1.5 because the scrapbook extension was not working on the original version shipped with mdv 2006. Since all is real good except that I can t read Windows media player streams amy more. (europe1 is the website I use to listen to the French radia as I live in the UK). Can you remind me quickly how to make this work again please??? :unsure: Ta! Stef [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 I use mplayerplugin, does the trick in Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 One other thing, just realised. I've got FF1.5 as well, which I installed into /usr/local/mozilla/firefox. This is what else I did: mv /usr/local/mozilla/firefox/plugins/libnullplugin.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins rm /usr/local/mozilla/firefox/plugins -rdf ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins /usr/local/mozilla/firefox/plugins that way, if you install any Mandriva apps, they get the firefox extensions from the FF1.0.x that comes with Mandriva by default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted April 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Thanks Ian, I ve done both and I m afraid still no joy. At least I can now listen to the radio with kmplayer but firefox still doesn't want to know! I will kill a few aliens (X3) and come back to it in a while... Stef :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=26814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 I can only think it's not finding your firefox plugins correctly or something :unsure: I know mine didn't work at first, until I did the symlink, then it was perfectly fine after that. Of course, your FF1.5 could be in a completely different place to where I put mine, but when you urpmi mplayerplugin, it always puts them in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Here is my config shown below, so you can try and replicate where necessary: [ian@europa ~]$ ls -l /usr/local/mozilla/firefox | grep plugins lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Apr 20 10:47 plugins -> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ drwxr-xr-x 2 ian ian 432 Mar 8 21:46 searchplugins/ [ian@europa ~]$ ls /usr/local/mozilla/firefox/plugins/ libmozsvgdec.so* mplayerplug-in-qt.so* mplayerplug-in.so* libnullplugin.so* mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt* mplayerplug-in-wmp.so* mplayerplug-in-gmp.so* mplayerplug-in-rm.so* mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt* mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt* mplayerplug-in.xpt don't know if that helps any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 mplayerplug-in.so and mplayerplug-in.xpt need to be in: ~/.mozilla/plugins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted April 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 ls -l /home/stephane/Firefox1.5.1/firefox | grep plugins drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Apr 20 09:54 plugins/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 432 Jan 25 00:32 searchplugins/ Looks like my simlink didn t work isn t it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Looks that way, just remove the plugins directory, but make sure you move the contents from this plugins directory to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and then symlink to this directory. You will be fine then. My ~/.mozilla/plugins directory only houses the flash plugin, my mplayer ones are definitely pulled from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. The symlink saves having to duplicate the files, thus making things a lot easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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