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Subject: Re: firefox crashing on unknown files
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N.J. Thomas wrote:

>Firefox is crashing on me whenever I click on a link for a file whose
>extension is not in the system mime.types file. (It was crashing on
>every non-html link before I installed the mime-support port.)
>
>I am almost positive this is happening because the default plugin is not
>enabled -- this is what about:plugins says:
>
>    Default Plugin
>
>        File name: libnullplugin.so
>
>        The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions
>        that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins.
>
>            MIME Type       Description     Suffixes        Enabled
>            *               All types       .*              No
>
>How can I enable libnullplugin.so or else prevent this behavior?
>
>Stats:
>
>    FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p7
>    firefox-1.0.2
>
>thanks,
>Thomas
>
>  
>
Maybe the plugin has some problems or dependancies that needs updating?  
But whatever it is if you just delete it firefox will no longer popup on 
you about a missing plugin(or crash?).  This is/was the recomended way 
of stopping firefox from asking you to get a plugin.  So it is safe to 
delete.