Linux Solutions

Welcome to the tutorial guide. The guide will provide instructions and advise to the user about how to install browser plugins for firefox which is the default browser in Fedora 7.

Mplayer (Watching Movies)
If you are interested in watching movies like avi’s in your browser, then you need Livna Repository enabled. You also need to run the following command:
su -c ‘yum install mplayerplug-in’

Xine (Watching Movies)
If you want to watch movies like avi’s in your browser, then you need to have the Livna Repository enabled. You also need to run the following command:
su -c ‘yum install totem-xine-mozplugin’

Playing the mms protocol
If you would like to play the mms protocol, then please go through following steps as mentioned below:

- please open the firefox.
- now type as url: about:config
- now please right click somewhere into the main window. A little box with options to choose will appear. Choose “new”, then “string”.
- copy the following line into the appearing text field:
network.protocol-handler.app.mms
- Into the next text field copy this:
/usr/bin/mplayer
- now you do the same thing again, but this time you do not choose “string” but “boolean”, and the line to copy is:
network.protocol-handler.external.mms
- then set true

If you followed instructions as provided in this tutorial guide then you would have successfully installed the plugins.