I was having trouble installing plug-in modules from my work computer, a Mac mini running OS X 10.4.9 and Firefox 3.
At first I followed the instructions when I looked up "firewall" on the user discussion forums. I saw postings by Howard Melman, [email protected], and others having similar problems, but their work-arounds, involving permissions and ownership, didn't work. Then I remembered that this institutional network is protected by a firewall, so Firefox runs via proxy servers, but even then many file download services (i.e., iTunes, YouTube) are blocked by the server. Each time I attempted to download a plug-in, QuickSilver gave me an error message Download failed, as follows: http://qs0.blacktree.com/quicksilver/plugins/download.php?qsversion=14357&id=com.blacktree.Quicksilver.QSSafariPlugIn can’t find host So I tried copying the URL (the whole error message, less "can't find host") into Firefox's browser, which quickly downloaded the file to the desktop. At first I tried a straight copy of these files to the Quicksilver Plugins folder (Username/Library/Application Support/ Quicksilver), but the plugins failed to install. Then I noticed that the plugin files haid the .pkg, ending, I assumed they must be installation files. So I moved them back to the desktop, double-clicked the whole bunch (I downloaded several, using the procedure above), and Quicksilver proceeded to carry out the installation itself, asking if I wanted to copy the plugins to the proper folder. It all worked fine, some modules required a restart to work (iTunes), now all the plug-ins are where they are supposed to be and working fine. I hope this manual installation helps other people out! Glenn
