Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.3-1 Severity: normal The basic problem is that the typical user finds he needs to install extra plugins, but these are not intrinsically tied in debian to the browser package. So either he installs them from sources he finds on the internet (bad, compared to having a debian package to provide the plugin) or (only if he is an experienced user) he spends time finding the right package to provide the plugin within debian.
Particularly at issue are flash and java plugins. There is a solid flash plugin in debian (swf-player) as well as a not-so-solid flash plugin (libflash-mozplugin crashed my browser repeatedly) [or maybe I have these backwards]. With java the problem is worse as Debian can't doesn't include any java plugins that I can see. Now, I can't tell you the best way to fix this. For the flash (and most other) plugins, the best choice would be to add a "recommends" entry to the package to recommend installation of the preferred plugin. Again, the problem is worse for java (and other proprietary) plugins as there's no good way to provide the plugin within the debian framework. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages mozilla-firefox depends on: ii debianutils 2.13.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-12 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libkrb53 1.3.6-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-12 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System printing extension ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii psmisc 21.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
