Re: [moz-bonobo-list] Disable a mime type?

[Adam Williams]

> >I've gotten the bonobo plugin working now, quite nice.  But I also have
> >the Acrobat Reader plugin, which is a far nicer and more stable PDF
> >viewer than GNOME's pdf component.  So I'd like to disable moz-bonobo
> >handling that mime type.  I've gone into the conf editor and added
> >"application/pdf" to apps/mozilla-bonobo/mime-types:ignore but it still
> >tries to pull up in ggv.
> Most probably this happens because of the known mozilla bug #125469.
> Mozilla caches which plugin is capable of displaying which mime type,
> and it is not really prepared for plugins whose supported mime types
> vary over time. So, to get mozilla to respect the new setting, you
> need to get it to re-query the plugin for the mime types it supports.
> There's 2 ways to do this (mozilla should not be running while you
> do this):
> - "touch" the libmozilla_bonobo.so file in your plugins directory, or
> - remove the "pluginreg.dat" file from your ~/.mozilla/ directory.
> You can verify if it worked by visiting "about:plugins" in the browser.
> Hopefully, the mozilla folks will get around to fixing this sometime
> soon. You can ofcourse vote for the mozilla bug to accelerate this :)
> (If you do so, please also vote for #201158).
> Note: this ofcourse also applies Galeon and Epiphany.

Removing "pluginreg.dat" worked.  Thanks for the tip.

Maybe adding "rm -f .mozilla/pluginreg.dat" to the login script isn't a
bad idea.