firefox and plugins

[Joel Hammer]

Have you just gone into the plugins directory under firefox
and removed the unwanted plugin?

Joel

On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 08:02:29PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> I have continual grief with plugins on Firefox.
> 
> The good folks at Ubuntu are totem bigots. I have no problem with
> that, but totem has never worked worth a c**p for me.
> 
> I use mplayer which nearly always works, although they do manage to
> screw it up from time to time during the development cycle.
> 
> The problem is that Firefox always gives preference to totem if its
> plugins are registered. So, after every maintenance cycle, I have to
> whack the plugin links for libtotem* before I can watch movie
> trailers.
> 
> Does anyone know a permanent solution, ie a way to persuade Firefox
> that mplayer is my preferred choice for movie type things?