[sclug] browser plugins

[Alex Butcher]

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Neil Haughton wrote:

> I've put a copy of raclass.zip in the .../firefox/plugins directory, and 
> j2re has been installed (I can see the  java 1.4.2_02 gcc32 plugin 
> listed), and I've changed the rights on raclass.zip to rwxrwxrwx, but I 
> still can't see it in Firefox.
> 
> Does raclass.zip need to be unpacked or something? I'm sure I haven't 
> had this trouble before.

No, Java understands classes in .zip files.

I'm guessing that your copy of firefox has been compiled with a different
version of gcc than the RealPlayer plugin. ISTR there was some hackage going
on in Mozilla/Firefox to prevent this from being a problem, but I have no
idea whether that's complete and fully working or not.

> Neil.

Alex.

> 
> 
> 
> 
> Alex Butcher wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 18 May 2004, Neil Haughton wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Doea anyone know how to install plugins for firefox (or mozilla)?
> >>
> >>I've done the obvious, but  no joy:
> >>
> >>1. I installed the plugin using the installer( as root).
> >>2. I copied (as root) the plugin (eg rpnp.so) to the firefox/plugins 
> >>directory (eg /usr/lib/firefox/plugins) where the other plugins are, but 
> >>when I start FF again, no plugin is displayed when I put about:plugins 
> >>as the url
> >>
> >>So what am I missing out?
> >>
> >>Hope someone can unravel this for me.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >IIRC, the Realplayer plugin also requires raclass.zip to be copied to the
> >plugins directory. That would also imply that a working Java Runtime
> >Environment is necessary too.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Neil
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Best Regards,
> >Alex.
> >  
> >
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