Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:43:02 -0400 From: jason henson <jason@ec.rr.com> To: "N.J. Thomas" <njt@ayvali.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox crashing on unknown files Message-ID: <4259F246.7090205@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20050410164955.GC9427@ayvali.org> References: <20050410164955.GC9427@ayvali.org>
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N.J. Thomas wrote: >Firefox is crashing on me whenever I click on a link for a file whose >extension is not in the system mime.types file. (It was crashing on >every non-html link before I installed the mime-support port.) > >I am almost positive this is happening because the default plugin is not >enabled -- this is what about:plugins says: > > Default Plugin > > File name: libnullplugin.so > > The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions > that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins. > > MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled > * All types .* No > >How can I enable libnullplugin.so or else prevent this behavior? > >Stats: > > FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p7 > firefox-1.0.2 > >thanks, >Thomas > > > Maybe the plugin has some problems or dependancies that needs updating? But whatever it is if you just delete it firefox will no longer popup on you about a missing plugin(or crash?). This is/was the recomended way of stopping firefox from asking you to get a plugin. So it is safe to delete.
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