[gentoo-user] Annoying Plugin pop-up, Firefox and Epiphany

[gentoo-user] Annoying Plugin pop-up, Firefox and Epiphany

[Dave Cameron]

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Hi All,

I'm running Gentoo on a SunBlade 100 SPARC machine, and so can't install
Sun Java or "Macromedia crap". Does anyone know how/if you can disable
the plugin popup on Epiphany and Firefox, it's really frustrating to
have these constant nags, especially(sic)  since I can't install these
binary-only plugins, both because of my social conscience, and because
of my platform, I would much appreciate it if someone knew.

On the lines of Java, why doesn't sun make Java for Linux on Sun? and
what is the best Free-Software JVM.

Regards,

Dave Cameron

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Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying Plugin pop-up, Firefox and Epiphany

[Glenn Enright]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:39, Dave Cameron wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm running Gentoo on a SunBlade 100 SPARC machine, and so can't install
> Sun Java or "Macromedia crap". Does anyone know how/if you can disable
> the plugin popup on Epiphany and Firefox, it's really frustrating to
> have these constant nags, especially(sic)  since I can't install these
> binary-only plugins, both because of my social conscience, and because
> of my platform, I would much appreciate it if someone knew.

For firefox, first try going to Menu View -->Preferences--> Web Features, and 
disabling (unchecking) java, javascript and maybee installing software. Close 
ALL firefox windows and restart to take effect, then test. 

If this doesnt fix, try typing about:config in URL bar and browse through the 
many possible settings. Google may be able to help with those.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying Plugin pop-up, Firefox and Epiphany

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:39:18AM +1300, Dave Cameron wrote
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm running Gentoo on a SunBlade 100 SPARC machine, and so can't
> install Sun Java or "Macromedia crap". Does anyone know how/if you
> can disable the plugin popup on Epiphany and Firefox, it's really
> frustrating to have these constant nags, especially(sic)  since I
> can't install these binary-only plugins, both because of my social
> conscience, and because of my platform, I would much appreciate it
> if someone knew.

  It's a two-step process...

  1) Plugins used to be stored in /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins.  That's
now being deprecated in favour of /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins.  For
the time being, assume that both directories are valid.  Anyhow, go into
those directories and rename or remove libnullplugin.so.  When Firefox
tries to load a plugin, and can't find it, it defaults to libnullplugin.so
which generates the plugin popup.  Removing libnullplugin.so gets rid of
the plugin popup.

  2) If you do just that, Firefox will then display a little strip
across the top, in place of the plugin popup, telling you that you're
missing a required plugin, and the page may not display as intended...
blah...blah...blah.  It's slightly less annoying, but annoying
nevertheless.  To get rid of that, go into about:config and change
plugin.default_plugin_disabled to false.

  You'll have to repeat step 1 each time you update Firefox or Mozilla
or whatever browser.  I don't remember if I had to reset about:config
after updating.

> On the lines of Java, why doesn't sun make Java for Linux on Sun?

  Because Sun is at war with linux, just like Microsoft is at war with
linux.  Sun Java for linux fits in with their plans about as much as
MS-Office-for-linux fits in with Microsoft's plans.  Sun wants to sell
expensive Sparc machines running expensive Solaris.  Cheap commodity
machines running free linux are eating their market alive, even moreso
than MS' market.  It's *MUCH* easier to transition from a unix-based
Solaris to a unix-like linux than from Windows to linux.

> and what is the best Free-Software JVM.

  http://www.blackdown.org calls itself "The home of Java on Linux!".

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Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying Plugin pop-up, Firefox and Epiphany

[brullo nulla]

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>
> > On the lines of Java, why doesn't sun make Java for Linux on Sun?
>
> Because Sun is at war with linux, just like Microsoft is at war with
> linux. Sun Java for linux fits in with their plans about as much as
> MS-Office-for-linux fits in with Microsoft's plans. Sun wants to sell
> expensive Sparc machines running expensive Solaris. Cheap commodity
> machines running free linux are eating their market alive, even moreso
> than MS' market. It's *MUCH* easier to transition from a unix-based
> Solaris to a unix-like linux than from Windows to linux.
>
>
This explanation doesn't fit with the fact Sun offers a free (beer) JVM for
Linux on x86.

It would fit more if Sun offers JVM for Linux on SPARC... at least you would
buy Sun hardware.

I think Linux/SPARC, just like Linux/PPC, is simply a too little niche worth
the effort.

m.

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