What will that do and where do i type that? In the address bar?

In the settings of konqueror, you can set the path of the plugins, then you can click, "scan for plugins".

You can then restart konqueror and have your plugins working.

Yeah but i'm trying to get firefox to have all the plugins. I don't use konqueror all that often. I am a firefox fan for life

Also, konqueror doesn't show any plugins at all when i go there and push scan for plugins. I have a lot of folders with plugins in them listed but when it scans it doesn't find any...

Maybe
pdf and swf are the only plugins there and they are both enabled. Where is the suse 10 folder for firefox?

./mozilla I think. It is probably best to run a search for it. I had some issues finding the Thunderbird and ./Mozilla-Thunderbird I think was the proper location. There is another one somewhere that modifying did nothing at all to.

I found both thunderbird and firefox in:

/opt/Mozilla-Firefox
/opt/Mozilla-Thunderbird

I checked the
/opt/Mozilla-Firefox/lib/plugins folder and sure enough there's a lot of plugins in there, including mplayer... still, there are no plugins registering with firefox

Instead of /opt/Mozilla-Thunderbird try ./Mozilla-Thunderbird I think the opt one is incorrect. Don't ask me what it is, I have one too.

I tried /home/user/.mozilla/plugins also. I added all the plugins to that folder and they don't show up inside the program. It's as if firefox doesn't scan for the plugins...

I even tried removing firefox completely then putting it back... nothing.
My files for the firefox are located in /opt/MozillaFirefox.
I have plugins put in there and I have mplayer and mplayerplug-ins also installed... I installed them with YAST and still nothing. I copied the mplayerplug-in.so and .xpt files in the plugins folders... nothing....

Well, then I have to say, let's start seeing if it is a wider issue...

Can you install themes and extensions?

I can install themes and extensions no problem. It's just that the plugins aren't installed through firefox but outside of it so maybe they go to a different directory?

Maybe I should just do a clean reformat and install? Sure I'd have to wait a while for all the updates then go through the jem report again... but hey... it might be a solution? Or will I be at the same place I am at now?

I really don't know. It could help, it might not.

You could try a dozen things, but not knowing what the problem actually is... I don't know if anything will help.

Your best bet, instead of full reformat, is wipe firefox out, and then strat fresh there with 1.0.7 from an rpm.

It may be a permissions issue where the plugins aren't writing, which you could know for sure by loggin in as root and trying to install them. But using YAST, you need SU anyway, so that shouldn't be the case.

You could try a bunch of other things, but it is haphazard guessing as what the fix would be without knowing a cause... I will look around when I have some time, in the mean time, good luck.

Well thanks anyway I think I'll go ahead and do a reformat because my openoffice takes like 2-3 minutes to load and that's annoying when I'm trying to type up something real quick and need a spell checker. Thanks though

Reinstallation did not work. I also noticed that once I follow the jem report instructions for making suse 10 a desktop pc, the openoffice 2 loads really slow....

Should I just install the eval version of SuSe10.0? I heard that it doesn't expire.

I found how to make it work. I went back and installed the i586 versons of every plugin, including java and mplayerplug-in. Then I restarted firefox and blam. All the plugins are there. Woohoo! Now I just need to figure out how to make the video show up. I get the status of the mplayer such as buffering, connecting, playing mms:/// blah blah but no video. Still, one step further.