[plug] Disable Realplayer in Firefox

[Jonathan Young]

Hi Mike

I'm out onsite and not on a computer with Firefox installed
unfortunately, so this is from memory...

When you click a link, there is an option to "always do the selected
action with this type of file" or similar.

Firefox maintains a list of these somewhere in options, near where the
other download settings are.  Find .rpm in the list and remove any
current associations with Real Player and then restart Firefox and click
the link again...

If I'm miles off, someone please correct me.  I'll check my copy of
Firefox when I get back to a safe place.  I mean... my own computer.

- Jonathan.


On 4/7/2006, "J Michael Gilks" <mike.gilks at westnet.com.au> wrote:

>Hit a bit of a problem with downloading an rpm file.
>When I click the link it opens the realplayer plugin and I cannot download the
>file.
>This is from a security conscious site so a right click and 'Save file as'
>just results in an aborted download.
>Can someone tell me how to disable the realplayer plugin for a while to get
>these files.
>I am using Firefox 1.0.7 running on SUSE 10.0
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Love
>Mike.
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