Re: Firefox update

From: Gene Heskett (gene.heskett_at_verizon.net)
Date: 03/24/05

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    Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:06:06 -0500
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    On Thursday 24 March 2005 13:20, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
    >On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:31:16 -0500, Gene Heskett
    >
    ><gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
    >> On Thursday 24 March 2005 10:56, jim lawrence wrote:
    >> >On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:35:23 -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
    >> >
    >> ><m3freak@rogers.com> wrote:
    >> >> On Wed, 2005-23-03 at 21:12 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
    >> >> > Save yourself from future annoyances and put all your custom
    >> >> > plugins into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
    >> >
    >> >And this will keep updates from messing up plugins?
    >>
    >> Sure, as long as its seperate from a mozilla or firefox install
    >> tree, and the stuff just softlinked from there to an entry in
    >> those trees, it should be fine.
    >
    >So, are you saying that we would still have to keep adjusting things
    >by hand after each update? (to remake the symlinks, I mean.)
    >
    Possibly, depending on the installer smarts. But that still beats a
    poke in the eye with a sharp stick, or trying to remember where it
    was that you ran all that stuff down the last time. I just upgraded
    both mozilla and firefox, and I haven't run into anything yet that
    indicates my pluggins got lost. Thats not saying something hasn't
    gone walking as firefox 1.0.2 has only been installed for about 9
    hours now.

    One can always do the lndir routine too, which might similarly
    simplicate that bit of upgradeing maintainance. That would be where
    you stick all that stuff in a seperate dir, and then lndir that dir
    to each of the installs real pluggins directory. Either way, the
    contents of the seperate pluggins dir will be shared (read only IIRC)
    to the virtually empty pluggins for those two browsers. Heck, theres
    probably enough similarity in the other browsers that use this stuff
    that you could just link their pluggins directorys back to the main
    one the browser lives in.
    >
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