Doubts with Firefox and aMSN

Hi again.

This time I have doubts about 2 apps in particular. The first one is about aMSN. I switched from Kopete to this one since offline messages seemed to not work, so I tried aMSN. So I asked my friend to send me a message while I was offline, then I logged in and I got nothing, no message. Why are offline messages not working?

Second one is Firefox. I have seen in Windows and other openSUSE installations that when installing Firefox 9 it comes by default with some additional “add-ons” or “functions” located by the navigation tools bar, such as Video Downloader. But those didn’t come by default in my case. What about this?

I’m on openSUSE 12.1 x86_64. Thanks for your help.

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:06:03 +0000, F style wrote:

> Second one is Firefox. I have seen in Windows and other openSUSE
> installations that when installing Firefox 9 it comes by default with
> some additional “add-ons” or “functions” located by the navigation tools
> bar, such as Video Downloader. But those didn’t come by default in my
> case. What about this?

Those addons are not part of the distribution. If you want them, add
them in from the Mozilla website.

Jim

Jim Henderson
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However I was sure that when installing Firefox 9 in a lap with openSUSE 12.1 32-bit it already included those “addons”. I made the installation in fact. Was it my imagination?

On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:36:02 +0000, F style wrote:

> However I was sure that when installing Firefox 9 in a lap with openSUSE
> 12.1 32-bit it already included those “addons”. I made the installation
> in fact. Was it my imagination?

There’s an openSUSE-specific plugin that’s installed, but AFAIK any
others have to be selected by the user - though some could be part of
another RPM, I suppose.

Jim


Jim Henderson
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Hi,

If firefox was previously installed (in an older version) on this machine, then it probably wasn’t your imagination.
Firefox keeps the old plugins, if it can when installing a newer version. So they seem to be installed when you install a newer version.

HTH

lenwolf

(edit : typo)

And, what about the aMSN offline messages issues?

On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:56:04 +0000, F style wrote:

> And, what about the aMSN offline messages issues?

If I knew something about it, I’d have said - I don’t use MSN messenger
functionality at all, so I’ve no idea.

Jim


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