219845 - Different list of plugin between root and user

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[antonio montagnani]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030918
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030918

I upgraded from Java beta to last release.I made the new link to the new java
plugin.The old Java was disinstalled
When I list the plug-ins as root I see both the old Java plugin and the new one,
while as user I see only the new Java plugin

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Help/About plug-ins
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Wron list as root

Expected Results:  
make the correct list

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

the plugin shouldn't show up anywhere if it's really uninstalled.  look in
/root/.mozilla/

Comment 2

[antonio montagnani]

where?? in which file??? I see only appreg and pluginreg.dat.

How do I read these files???

Tnx

Antonio

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

if you've run Mozilla as root, there should at least be a profile directory for
root.  I thought root might also have its own "plugin" directory.  You might
clobber root's pluginreg.dat and try restarting Mozilla.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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