My first reply went off-list to Del for some reason. Sorry.
Del Merritt wrote:
> <snip>
> I removed and re-installed flash-plugin. Didn't help.
>
> Well, after doing a bit more puttering about, I discovered I had
three different versions of pluginreg.dat in my home directory. I think
these versions reflect the development history of Firefox (I've been
using it since 0.something), and the fact that I have never really
punted my settings and such.
Ditto. I've been following this thread because I had intermittent
problems listing to certain webcasts. So I also did a find and found
multiple occurrences of the pluginsreg.dat.
I suspect that all users of FF with plugins going might want to do what
you (and now I) did.
>
> Thus, starting from:
>
> $ cd .mozilla
> $ find . -name "pluginreg.dat" -ls
> 4 -rw------- 288 Nov 13 15:23
> ./firefox/q3xyzzym.default/pluginreg.dat
> 4 -rw------- 2586 Apr 15 2008 ./firefox/pluginreg.dat
> 4 -rw------- 2306 Feb 1 2005 ./pluginreg.dat
>
> Obviously only the one dated 11/13 is "current". I stopped FF,
renamed all of them to "pluginreg.dat-", and restarted FF. Lo:
>
> $ find . -name "pluginreg.dat" -ls
> 4 -rw------- 284 Nov 14 10:01
> ./firefox/ds5m6swm.default/pluginreg.dat
I did the same, based on your posts. I alos had a small change, but not
for shockwave. But what it found may fix the intermittent problem I had.
Time will tell.
>
> and diff shows:
>
> $ diff pluginreg.dat pluginreg.dat-
> 7c7
> < /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so:$
> ---
> > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so:$
> 9,10c9,10
> < 1223176557000:1:1:$
> < Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12:$
> ---
> > 1206410557000:1:13:$
> > Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124:$
Since my shockwave was working OK, I didn't see any differences there.
However, I did get a bunch of lines similar to this
9c9
< 1205872895000:1:5:$
---
> 1205872895000:1:1:$
16c16
< 1215114783000:1:5:$
---
> 1215114783000:1:1:$
which are useless to me and one that may be significant to my problem.
47a48
> 28:audio/x-scpls:Shoutcast Playlist:pls:$
I suspect that the above line might cure part/all of my problem.
> <snip>
> This was sure tedious, and leaves open the question of the value of
nspluginwrapper.
I didn't remove this, might have to try that later.
Now, my CentOS 4.x has problems with shockwave. Thanks to you and the
others that posted, I'm going to try the same on that. Of course, the
shockwave will be different, but if it works at all that will be a big step.
Thanks to you and all those who helped. It gives me a path to follow.
>
> -Del
> <snip sig stuff>
--
Bill
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