A firefox secret

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Mar 12 15:01:53 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 10:14 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 11:06 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >   
> > > > > Now I will tell you a secret. If you go into about:config you will
> > > > >         
> > > > see
> > > >       
> > > > > that the configuration:
> > > > > browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions is set as true by
> > > > > default. Only when it is set to false can you see what you want to
> > > > >         
> > > > see
> > > >       
> > > > > in the: Edit->Preferences->downloads->view & Edit Actions.
> > > > > With this set as true you are flying blind with plugins.  Why does
> > > > > fedora not distribute this with the configuration set properly.
> > > > >         
> > > How
> > >     
> > > > would you
> > > >       
> > > > > know about this?
> > > > >         
> > > > File a bug. It cerainly seems rediculous.
> > > > 
> > > > Dotan Cohen 
> > > >       
> > Many moons ago I reveled the above secret and was asked to file a
> > bugzilla. So I did on bugzilla.redhat.com
> > They responded that I should file the bug on bugzilla.mozilla.org
> > So  I did: bug 373568
> > 
> > Mozilla responded that this was a duplicate of bug 370386
> > This bug is indeed related but it blames the problem on gnome and
> > suggests a patch which clearly has never been applied. If you go to bug
> > 370386 you will see reference to an older mozilla bug report.
> > 
> > At this point I am dizzy. I will think about this further but it looks
> > hopeless for anyone to take responsibility for this and then promise to
> > fix this in later firefoxes, gnomes or somewhere. If anyone wants to
> > trail this far enough to make a suggestion I am all ears.
> >   
> I just checked, the default on mine is "false."  [Firefox 2.0.0.1
> FC-6]
> 
> Bob Goodwin
Are you sure you did not set it to false before you upgraded? I would
expect the settings for each user would be retained in their home
directory. Mine is also false after installing firefox2 but ir was false
before I installed firefox-1.5.0.10.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>




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