Re: Disabling annoying Mozilla requests

[Tore Anderson <tore@linpro.no>]

* Joey Hess

 >> I'm much more annoyed/concerned that mozilla, mozilla-firebird, and
 >> galeon all obtrusuvely offer (over and over again and there's no obvious
 >> way to even turn it off) to install non-free software every time I visit
 >> a site with flash on it. I think that's an example of something not
 >> unlike installer packages in _main_ that ought to be dealt with.

* Joe Wreschnig

 > (This is in case you don't know, or someone else doesn't. It is
 > definitely not an ideal solution to the problem.)
 >
 > # rm /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnullplugin.so

  You know, this is the exact solution that was suggested by Romain
 FRANCOISE for Mozilla Firebird in #196609.

  I do not know how this is a sub-optimal solution, it certainly
 worked flawlessly on my own computer, and I couldn't really see
 any other useful task that this null plugin was doing, so removing
 it seems like a perfectly adequate solution to me.

  Unfortunately, the maintainer doesn't seem to agree, for he has
 ignored the bug report, and the proposed solution, for approximately
 three months.

-- 
Tore Anderson