[sclug] browser plugins

[Tom Dawes-Gamble]

All this talk of plugins and realplayer reminded me I want to try and
get my sound card working so I can use things like the BBC site to
listen to the radio.  So I thought I'd try the shockwave  flash plugin
to test plugins were working. Anyway I downloaded it installed it in
/bin/lib/mozilla  and it works fine in mozilla so next I tried it in
galeon and no joy.  

The help says galeon uses /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and that is where the
plugin is installed.  but it doesn't work.

So what is the magic incantation to get the plugin to work with galeon?

Tom.

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 17:37, Neil Haughton wrote:
> The java plugin works fine with the symlink you suggest. Realplayer8 
> doesn't yield to this approach :-)
> 
> I'm going to try the Helix Realplayer 10, and see if that is better.
> 
> Neil.
> 
> 
> Smiles, Mark (Mark) wrote:
> 
> >I had similar fun setting up citrix java client in firefox for java ssl
> >tunnelling back to my business. The result was achieved when I
> >symbolically linked in the firefox plugin directory, to the
> >libjavaplugin_oji.so file installed in the system from the sun j2re rpm.
> >Worked on Mozilla 1.6 also.
> >
> >Not sure if this helps with realplayer java as I haven't tested this but
> >you can give it a try.
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk] On
> >Behalf Of Alex Butcher
> >Sent: 19 May 2004 19:39
> >To: Neil Haughton
> >Cc: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> >Subject: Re: [sclug] browser plugins
> >
> >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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