Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:36:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > For months off-and-on I've tried to add Java and/or Flash to Mozilla. > > Nothing I've done seems to work. > > > > I'm currently running Mozilla Build ID: 2001032614. > > i am running the 0.8.1 packages from Kitame's site. > > > > > Can anyone tell me how to get plugins to be recognized by Mozilla? >
[...] > > i then reran the mozilla postinst for good measure, though i don't > think thats actually necessary for plugins, just componants and > chrome. just run: > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla.postinst > > as root. > > the plugin works fine. i do not run mozilla as root either ;-) > > perhaps the plugins your using are simply incompatible with mozilla? > try the Free flash plugin instead of the proprietary one. > I've copied the same plugin that worked with communicator so they work with mozilla (i'm using the 0.7-0progeny1), at least with the i386 architecture. I would like to try the free software one, especially with the couple of mac (a cube and a powerbook g3) where i've installed debian (thanks to Ethan's docs)... I think a search on freshmeat will do the trick =) > i do wish mozilla would look for plugins in > /usr/local/lib/mozilla/plugins so non-packaged plugins can be dropped > there, All your /usr/lib are belong to dpkg afterall... this works for > netscape i have the same plugin installed for netscape at > /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins. (using debian netscape packages). Even if this is not the best solution, communicator looks for plugins in the ~/.netscape dir, but until now i was not able to replicate the behaviour with mozilla... Andrea
