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Hi,

I use FF (FireFox) 3.6 (had an issue with FF4.0) and KernelEx on my
Win98se computer.

Not long ago, I installed AR6 (Adobe Reader 6) after I removed V5. I
also installed IE 5.5 before installing AR6.

Ever since I installed AR6, when I launch FF, most of the time it
automatically goes to Mozilla's "Check Your Plugins" page. This never
happened before.

Note: I have all automatic updates unchecked in FF and FF launches to
"Show a Blank Page" ("General" options) .

Any ideas on what may be the cause of this "Check Your Plugins"
nuisance?

Here's what I found a while back...................

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin_scanning

* To prevent scanning the Netscape Navigator 4.x directory for
plugins, add a new boolean preference named
plugin.scan.4xPluginFolder and set the value to "false".

* To prevent scanning the directories specified in the Windows
registry for PLIDs, modify the plugin.scan.plid.all preference
value from "true" to "false". Plugins in this category include
RealPlayer, as well as Flash starting with version 9.0 r45 [1].

* To prevent scanning the Quicktime, SunJRE, WindowsMediaPlayer or
Acrobat installation directories, find the related preference and
increase the value of the minimum version to a number greater than
the version you have installed. For example:
- To stop the plugin scan for Java plugins, modify the value of the
preference plugin.scan.SunJRE from "1.3" to 1.9
- To stop the Windows Media Player plugin scan, modify the value of
the preference plugin.scan.WindowsMediaPlayer from "7.0" to
19.0


And here's how it worked for me (copy of my post follows).............

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/938821

I'm using 3.6.24, and I got that same Plugin Check tab (after using
it for a looooong time) after I decided to re-enable ConvertHelper
for DownloadHelper.

It let me know that it had disabled my outdated Java. It also
complained that my Shockwave Flash was "vulnerable", VLC Multimedia
Plugin was "unknown", and Adobe Acrobat was "outdated".

Like many, I can't update the plugins, because I'm already using the
latest versions supported by my system.

I don't know what hidden settings got changed, and I tried all the
usual suggestions here and on the InterWeb, until I finally got
to http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin_scanning

As suggested there, I went into about:config and changed:
plugin.scan.plid.all from "true" to "false"

Closed and restarted; it still complained about Java and Acrobat.

Went into about:config again, changed:
plugin.scan.Acrobat from "5.0" to "9"

Closed and restarted.... ONLY MY HOME PAGE! YAAAAY!!!!!