Description of Problem: Mysteriously enough when "About Plug-ins" under "Help" was chosen Mozilla was showing a blank page although this worked as expected elsewhere. A cause for this problem turned out to be as follows; if there exists ~/.netscape with a user profile in it and a Javascript is there turned off then mozilla picks that up and "About Plug-ins" comes blank. That would be not that bad in itself if not that small catch that turning on Javascript (surprisingly an "Advanced" operation) has rather erratic results and sometimes plugins do show up after that and sometimes do not. Also changes in plugins configurations (say after /etc/pluggerrc was changed due to an installation of a new version or because some edits were done in this file) will be either not picked up or things will be messed up (double entries, etc.). The only sure way to fix these bogosities seems to be a removal of ~/.mozilla/appreg file so it will be regenerated. This would be not that bad in itself, if somewhat obscure, if not that nasty detail that after deleting this binary blob mozilla insists on "converting" profiles again, with no escape hatch, and thus clobbers what one had already customized in settings, bookmarks, etc. No "conversion", no startup. The other surprise is if Mozilla was showing a blank plugins page then Galeon, which apparently is using the same info, may do the same even if Javascript there is turned-on. After turning on Javascript in Mozilla and showing plugins list Galeon seems to pick up even if Javascript in Mozilla is turned off again. Strange traps....
Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks. Please check if this issue is still present in a current Fedora Core release. If so, please change the product and version to match, and check the box indicating that the requested information has been provided. Note that any bug still open against Red Hat Linux on will be closed as 'CANTFIX' on September 30, 2006. Thanks again for your help.
Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.