Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:15:33 +1100 > Wayne Blaszczyk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Could I make one suggestion. >> Can we have the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins as the directory, and symlink >> to this rather than the other way around as it is now. >> This way, the plugins will not be tie to a specific version of Firefox >> and save the user trouble of copying them across every time Firefox is >> upgraded. > > Fernando de Oliveira has just made a good point about this on BLFS > Support. If we put plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins they'll be found > by all Mozilla products including Thunderbird. This raises security > concerns, if there is an exploitable bug in a plugin. I seem to recall > that there were some problems with Adobe's pdf plugin. Certainly flash > has its bugs. Whatever. The bugs are all there in the browser. If the > user wants an email application that can render html they may well like > to have plugins enabled too. Personally I prefer Sylpheed because it > doesn't render html but each to their own.
I don't use flash. I have a Xoom tablet and installed flash. The only thing it does is enable junk I don't want to see. I uninstalled it. For email I use SeaMonkey. It can be set to render html or not. I generally prefer not. The advantage of common plugins is that they only need to updated in one place. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
