A firefox secret
oldman
talbotscott at cox.net
Mon Mar 12 15:52:52 UTC 2007
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Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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.
I'll confirm that my new install of f7T2 with update to FFox 2.0.0.2 was
TRUE, and I adjusted it to FALSE
FWIW
Scott
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