Bug#504272: iceweasel: Does not fall back to nphelix.so when libtotem-complex-plugin.so is disabled in GUI

[Mike Hommey]

Hi,

Sorry for the late followup.

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 12:22:54PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:46:22PM +1030, David Purton wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 11:31:58AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > I think the core of the problem here is that disabling plugins in the
> > > GUI actually doesn't disable them, which is why, for instance, I added a
> > > MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS environment variable that really disables them,
> > > for debugging purpose.
> > 
> > That just disables all plugins, right?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > The GUI must do something though - since it does complain that it's
> > missing plugins after disabling one.
> 
> It does mark them as disabled, but the association mime/type->plugin is
> kept, and the plugin is still loaded.
> 
> > Could whatever technique you use be adapted to specific plugins?
> 
> It would require more changes than what I'm willing to do before Lenny
> is released. The best you can do is file a bug against firefox on
> bugzilla.mozilla.org, or wait for me to do that (but that will take more
> time ;) )

Actually, there might be something you can do. Can you check the file
type associations in Edit > Preferences > Applications ?
There might be an association of the given type with the totem plugin,
that you can maybe change, then.

Mike