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no plugins listed in firefox except shockwave

Asked by fraterchaos

I do not know why, but the only plugin listed in firefox is the shockwave plugin.

I know other plugins were installed before, as I used bittorrent to download files and I never had to do anything, just click on the seed file I needed and it would ask if I wanted to open bittorrent or save the seed file.

I have no idea why the pluging are gone. Perhaps during an update session they were removed. How can I reinstall them? I do not know the actual filenames of all the plugings that should be there, and as far as I can see, there isn't any ADD button in the plugins list anyway, and search only searches the already installed plugins.

The odd thing is, if I try to view a video stream gxine opens but won't play the stream (see other ticket).

I can't figure this out, it seems like everyday something new is wrong with this system. I have even added applets to the panel and they worked, then the next day they don't. (Wireless assistant running in sudo mode, I added an applet because when I run it from the menu it always complains its not in sudo mode, so I added the applet and set it run sudo, and it worked before, now it won't, doesn't even open)

Please, somebody tell me why I am having so many problems!

Should I try re-installing the whole system, or moving up to Edgy?

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fraterchaos (fraterchaos) said : 		#1

Oh I didn't mention, the reason I noticed all this was because bittorrent won't run, when I click on a torrent, it says I have no application to run this type of program or file.

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williamts99 (williamts99) said : 		#2

Personally, if you don't have a need for LTS, then why not go with the latest version. But of course that is your choice, I would do a fresh install of the latest stable release, Edgy. But that is just me :-)

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#3

Bittorrent files are dealt with by other applications, not necessarily by firefox plugins.

You can install a simple bittorrent client in Synaptic package manager. It should pick up torrent files. For example the standard one is gnome-btdownload but there is also freeloader and bittornado (amongst others). These should pick up torrent files when you click on them in firefox. When you click a torrent in firefox do you get a dialog box pop up asking "What should firefox do with this file?"? If you do then once you have installed one of the bittorrent clients you can choose it from the list.

In answer to your "why am I having so many problems" question:-

What did you do after installing Ubuntu to get all the extra bits you have installed? Did you use automatix or easyubuntu?

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