Re: the plugin that refuses to die
Glenn English wrote:
> I'm trying to disable Flash on mozilla.
>
> I've renamed the file that mozilla's "about plugins" says is to blame
> (/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflash-mozplugin.so).
Hi Glenn,
Have you moved the file somewhere else, or just renamed it? I suspect
Mozilla will try to start up all .so files in the plugin directory
regardless of the name. Maybe even _all_ files, but I don't know for sure.
> Anybody got an enchanted dagger that will kill this beast?
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but how about
apt-get --purge remove libflash-mozplugin swf-player
after renaming the file mentioned above back to its original name? You
may then need to kill any leftover swf_play processes, but now they
shouldn't come back.
regards,
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