On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:04:01 -0700
"Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>    I think this has possibly been going on for a few weeks but I just
> noticed it and I'm not sure what caused it. Yahoo is my homepage.
> Apparently there is enough multimedia stuff - Flash or whatever - on
> that page that Firefox needs to run so something, so it appears to
> start up Wine via cxoffice to manage plugin requirements? Very
> strange!
> 
>    Possibly this is some search path issue? Not sure. I did recently
> reinstall CXOffice. MAybe that caused it?
> 

There is no native shockwave player for Linux.  It's possible that
cxoffice has installed something that makes the Yahoo! homepage think
that shockwave is available and therefore use it.  Put about:plugins in
the address bar and see what you have laying around.

-- 
Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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