ubuntu-restricted-extras firefox plugins?

[fremantle]

i have a fresh installation of 10.10. i installed u-res-extras, and then installed ff4 from ppa. and now i have no plugin (divx, totem, etc.)

[idoitprone]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

do you have all the codecs?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=687738

[fremantle]

yeas, i do. i can play all files in my hdd. but i dont have the plugins for ff. i checked in tools>plugins

[idoitprone]

really?
enter in the address url "about:plugins"

its about -semicolon-plugins

post screen shot. Now i have to manually find the proper files that you may have to soft link to you firefox plugin page.

[fremantle]

here thats all the plugins i have. even after installing res extras

[idoitprone]

wait you only install ubuntu-restrictive extras, i believe there are more stuff to install. Go to the mediubuntu link i gave you, since you have to add other repositories

Dont worry it will be easy since it basically a copy paste from the wiki to the terminal.

[fremantle]

but in the past whenever i installed res extras i had ALL the plugins for firefox. for example in lucid and in natty devs. why isnt it working now?

[fremantle]

wait you only install ubuntu-restrictive extras, i believe there are more stuff to install. Go to the mediubuntu link i gave you, since you have to add other repositories

Dont worry it will be easy since it basically a copy paste from the wiki to the terminal.
wheres the medibuntu link?

[lovinglinux]

The ubuntu-restricted-extras only install flash and java plugins. You need to install the other plugins as well. You don't need Medibuntu for that.

Depending on the ppa you used to install Firefox 4, it will clone your user profile from ~/.mozilla/firefox to ~/.mozilla/firefox-4.0. That happens with mozillateam-firefox-next, but not with mozillateam-firefox-stable.

Anyways, that shouldn't be a reason for not displaying your installed plugins, since the browser fetches them from the lib directory. However, it is possible that something went wrong and you you got a corrupted profile. Try to delete the file pluginreg.dat from your profile and restart Firefox. But first make sure you have the plugins installed.

I recommend Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683)

[idoitprone]

here the link
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu



next time get linux mint, they prepackage the codecs

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint

i was reading the post above to see what is he saying. dododo bye. always listen to the guy smarter than me

[fremantle]

The ubuntu-restricted-extras only install flash and java plugins. You need to install the other plugins as well. You don't need Medibuntu for that.

Depending on the ppa you used to install Firefox 4, it will clone your user profile from ~/.mozilla/firefox to ~/.mozilla/firefox-4.0. That happens with mozillateam-firefox-next, but not with mozillateam-firefox-stable.

Anyways, that shouldn't be a reason for not displaying your installed plugins, since the browser fetches them from the lib directory. However, it is possible that something went wrong and you you got a corrupted profile. Try to delete the file pluginreg.dat from your profile and restart Firefox. But first make sure you have the plugins installed.

i found plugins.ini not .dat

[lovinglinux]

i found plugins.ini not .dat

I think you meant profiles.ini. Don't delete that, since it contains your profiles list. The pluginreg.dat is further inside the profiles folders. Nevertheless, I don't think you need to do that anyway. Is clear now that you didn't install the plugins. That's why they are not showing.

Just tell which plugins you need and I will write the installation commands for you.