On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 17:51, Tore Anderson wrote: > * 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. Because I shouldn't have to "randomly" delete files to get the non-annoying form of a program. The real solution is a configuration option to turn nullplugin off. -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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