Mozilla & Plugins

[saeed_contractor]

I seem to be having some trouble with the plugins in mozilla 0.9.2.1. In short they don't seem to work. I installed Java and Shockwave and they both show up when I use about :plugins but when I go to a site that uses one...like try to play a shockwave game...it doesn't work or crashes the browser.
Any ideas??

[Xsecrets]

Well to test java go to java.sun.com and see if you get the applets on the top right and lower left of the page.

As far as shockwave games the native linux flash plugin does not suport them it is a flash plugin not a shockwave plugin. if you want shockwave you have to go to the crossover plugin available here (http://www.codeweavers.com)
they have a demo download to test it and I've used that it works very well but you have to pay to get rid of the nag screens.

[Icarus]

I've been trying to install the java plugin for a month, fails every time...I even downloaded and compiled with that failing. RedHat7.2 (I haven't tried to see if java worked though...)

[saeed_contractor]

Ok, I'm not really sure what happened but java works now. Strange, I didn't do anything different from when I made the original post, but it still mysteriously crashes. Is there a log file I can check somewhere to tell me why?

[Mr Myaghi]

Proper plugin support is on the way. Mozilla 1.0 will probably be released in late February. It will contain proper plugin support.

[Frith]

Originally posted by Mr Myaghi:
<STRONG>Proper plugin support is on the way. Mozilla 1.0 will probably be released in late February. It will contain proper plugin support.</STRONG>

February 2002? :p

[Xsecrets]

Well the plugin support on my mozilla seems to be proper already I have Java, flash, shockwave, quicktime, and more and all seem to work just fine.

[tensai]

Originally posted by mahdi:
<STRONG>I've been trying to install the java plugin for a month, fails every time...I even downloaded and compiled with that failing. RedHat7.2 (I haven't tried to see if java worked though...)</STRONG>

I downloaded the rpm from Sun last nite, messed around with it, thought I followed the instruction to the letter and nothing still worked. After some extremely frustrating time, I realized that I need to make a symbolic link from the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin (or something like that, doing this from memory) to the /usr/java/ . . /ns600/***java.so (forgot about the exact filename, but you can't miss it). After that, java worked like a charm.

[Icarus]

I just had to reserect this thread...doing the link to the libjava.so in the plugins directory did not work...that is right, right?
/usr/java/jre1.3.1_01/lib/i386/libjava.so

[Xsecrets]

you linked to the wrong place you don't link to the lib dir. it is something like this.

/wherever/jrex.x.x/plugins/ns6??/???????.so