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Idea #20053: Simplify the firefox plugin selection

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #4755: Firefox/Mozilla: Synchronize "Open With" with Menu.
Written by qwerty800 the 30 May 09 at 01:32. Related project: Firefox. Status: New
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Currently, selecting which plugin to use for a certain application is really hard and very confusing for those that once used firefox on Windows.

First, the Preferences entry is in "Edit" instead of "Tools".
Secondly, when you look for a plugin that you've installed, most of the time it's not even there. To have it selected, you have to completely uninstall the previous plugin, install the newer one and hope that you haven't done anything wrong.
Worse, when you click on Other (or Browse?) you have to search for your plugin. But you don't even know where it is, or how does a firefox plugin file looks like.

It really SHOULD be fixed.
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Solution #1: Having every plugin able to load the selected file listed
Written by qwerty800 the 30 May 09 at 01:32.
Currently, only the current action and the default one are lsted. EVERY plugin able to load the selected file should be listed, to avoid headaches.

Also, instead of browsing our applications, couldn't we just assign a command for this? It way more easier to type "vlc" than to search for the binary...

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cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 30 May 09 at 03:37
The easy way to find the location of a Firefox plugin is detailed at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxPlugins

If you install a plugin, but it doesn't actually install - that's usually bug. Please report it to Ubuntu's bug tracker at launchpad.net.

Though it seems unrelated to your issue: Preferences in 'tools' is a Windows standard. Preferences in 'edit' is a Gnome standard. Mozilla's position is that they conform to the standard of the host desktop.

qwerty800 wrote on the 1 Aug 09 at 21:46
While "about:plugins" does list every single plugin as it should, I still have no idea on how to acces/use them, since I can't see them in the Settings!


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