Re: Disabling annoying Mozilla requests

[Tore Anderson <tore@linpro.no>]

* 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

* Tore Anderson

 >>   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.

* Joe Wreschnig

 > Because I shouldn't have to "randomly" delete files to get the
 > non-annoying form of a program.

  Of course you, as the user, should not, and I did not mean that
 either.  Removing it is clearly the maintainer's responsibility.

  Even if the user knew that it was the null plugin who caused the
 annoyance, he might not even access to removing it.  The package
 maintainer is the one who should know, and also to take care to
 remove it from the package so the user is provided with the most
 optimal non-annoying form of the program out-of-the-deb.

 > The real solution is a configuration option to turn nullplugin off.

  Or that, given it's disabled per default.

-- 
Tore Anderson