Anyone have a list of internet plug in apps that need to be installed for general internet surfing?

Flash
Java (included in 10.2?)
Set kpdf up as default pdf browser
Set xmms up as default audio app
Set xine up as default video app

Are there other plugins to add to this list???

If you're talking about using fully embedded stuff then I'm not quite sure about most. I know that for xine there is gxineplugin.so (google for it, I don't use it).

I use firefox and I'm quite happy with the flexibility of having it ask me "Hey, we're downloading a .XXX file, what do you want me to do?" and I can independently choose an app and, if I'm satifisfied with how that performs just select the "Do this everytime with this type of file" box (or whatever it says).

Even in 'general' internet surfing you are going to encounter the sites, a la "streetfire", that just freakin' ASSUME that Windows Media Player is some kind of de facto standard for 100% of the world. Well, it's up there in % maybe but it sure as heck isn't 100%, at least not as long as I'm using Slackware. In that case, no worries, if I really want to see the video or media clip I just view the source (even if there are right-click disable scripts...then I just giggle for a second, view the source, and directly grab the media in question). No problem.

However, I think there are some sites with embedded WinBlo$se content that use browser IDs and nested caching and stuff that I haven't bothered to look into yet. There's NO video clip or audio clip I want to see THAT badly. Honestly. It's just not that important to me.

Why use kpdf over the native Adobe Acrobat reader? Adobe Acrobat reader 7.0 is now out for Linux and not everyone runs KDE as their desktop environment.

Peace...

10.2 comes with kpdf, I'm not sure if Acrobat is an improvement on kpdf.

I'm just trying to figure out if there are any other things like Flash that I need to download. I don't really know much about internet plug-ins.

Without doubt the mplayer plugins are the most popular and useful. It supports almost every type of media. Another is the real player plugin, which seems to work better than the mplayer real plugin for those types of files.

Well, Adobe's Acrobat reader isn't associated with any particular desktop env, like KDE, so for those running GNOME or not desktop env at all, having a fully standalone plugin has its value.

Peace...