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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how does one temporarily disable a firefox plugin (SOLVED)
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:14:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu9wt25lcv0.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yu98xenxaea.fsf@nyu.edu> (Allan Gottlieb's message of "Sat\, 24 Feb 2007 21\:02\:05 -0500")

At Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:02:05 -0500 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:

> I have a stable x86 gentoo system with firefox (bon echo) 2.0.0.1) and
> totem 2.16.4.  According to about:plugins totem is to handle mp3 files
>
> I would like to temporarily not have totem handle the mp3s, but I was
> unable to see how to do it.
>
> I strongly suspect that unmerging totem (and remerging when done)
> would work but was looking for a less drastic method.

Less drastic method found

As root

cd /usr/lib/nsbrowser
mkdir plugins-save
mv plugins/*totem* plugins-save

When finished
mv plugins-save/* plugins

I suspect there is a way inside firefox, but I couldn't find it.
Illumination would be appreciated.

allan
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-26  5:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-25  2:02 [gentoo-user] how does one temporarily disable a firefox plugin Allan Gottlieb
2007-02-26  5:14 ` Allan Gottlieb [this message]
2007-02-26 22:10   ` [gentoo-user] how does one temporarily disable a firefox plugin (SOLVED) Thomas Rösner

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