[plug] Firefox helper applications.

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

ubuntu-desktop is a metapackage for all the dependicies that make up
an "ubuntu-desktop" (gnome, firefox, the list goes on). I'd try
changing your firefox plugins, rather than removing software. Or
install totem-xine, which will probably work with most movies just
like vlc as a last ditch effort. I think VLC has a plugin these days
also, perhaps you can see what the state of that is.

Tomasz

On 5/22/06, Jason Posavec <jasonposavec at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> For some reason, Firefox has made totem (possibly the most useless
> program ever written) the default player for viewing videos on websites,
> rather than my preferred vlc player. I can't find anywhere in the
> Firefox settings where it actually has specified totem, so am unable to
> alter it.
>
> I had the idea of deleting totem from the system altogether in the hope
> that Ff would then ask for another application, but synaptic informs me
> that to delete totem I would also have to delete ubuntu-desktop - which
> sounds like a BAD idea. I'm not 100% sure tho, is ubuntu-desktop a
> critical application? Is it what I think it is? The actual desktop?
>
> Any suggestions on how to make vlc my preferred helper application would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jason
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