Brian/Jerry: ping. This bug has been open for almost a week and the next round
of tarballs are being released.

Based on my evaluation, I think this patch is now upstream.  Note the real guts
of this patch was the following change:

        if test "$have_libxpcomglue_s" = "yes"; then
                LIBXPCOMGLUE_S="-L$MOZILLA_LIBDIR -lxpcomglue_s"
        else
-               AC_MSG_WARN([libxpcomglue_s not available; plugins may not be
po
rtable])
+                LIBXPCOMGLUE_S="-L/usr/lib/firefox -lxpcom -lxpcom_core
-R/usr/
lib/firefox"
        fi

Whereas the new code in GNOME 2.23 looks like this:

        if test "$have_libxpcomglue_s" = "yes"; then
                LIBXPCOMGLUE_S="-L$MOZILLA_LIBDIR -lxpcomglue_s"
        else
                LIBXPCOMGLUE_S=`$PKG_CONFIG --libs $MOZILLA-xpcom`
        fi

Looking at /usr/lib/pkgconfig/firefox-xpcom.pc on my machine, it has these link
lines:

        Libs: -L${libdir} -lxpcom -lxpcom_core

So, I notice in the generated totem Makefiles, the LIBXPCOMGLUE_S variable is 
getting set like this:

        LIBXPCOMGLUE_S = -L/usr/lib/firefox -lxpcom -lxpcom_core

To me, this looks suspiciously like what the totem-03-browserplugin.diff patch
was setting the value to, aside from the fact that it is missing the
"-R/usr/lib/firefox".

I'd say if there is a problem with the RUNPATH part being missing, that this 
should be fixed in the firefox.pc file, not by hacking totem further.

Therefore I'd say it's safe to rip out this patch.  However, Jerry should
probably confirm first since he is the actual patch owner.  Since I haven't
worked on this code, I am not sure how to test if the totem browser plugin is
working or not.  Since Jerry wrote the patch, I think he should be better able 
to actually test that the totem browser plugin still works reasonably when this
patch is not applied.

Jerry is taking vacations these days. So the work will be delayed for a while.

Jedy will work on this until Jerry is back.

Jerry, please remember to update the bugs status daily here. Thanks!

Quoted from Jerry's mail:

"I verified that even with removal of patch 03,04,05,
totem's plugins does not work at all.

I have filed bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539089 for it.

and for now, I  want to disable it."

we can remove patch 03,05,
but the plugin doesnot work

fixed, will be in 94.