[sclug] browser plugins

[Alex Butcher]

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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