"D. D. Brierton" wrote:
> All of my plugins for mozilla have stopped working since installling
> RealPlayer 8 from the RPM downloaded from Real.com. Everything had been
> working great, albeit java was slow slow slow. I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.1,
> and mozilla 0.8 (I've just upgraded to 0.8.1 and the problem still persists).
> Everything was working fine---if I started mozilla from the command line I
> could see the plugins being registered (and the java-vm taking an age to get
> going).
>
> However, last week I installed the Real Player 8.0 from RPM from real.com. Now
> the java_vm does not start when I start mozilla, the plugins are not
> registered at startup, and if I go to a page that has a flash animation or a
> java applet on it I am told that I don't have the plugins installed. But I've
> checked and they are still there just like they've always been. I've tried
> re-installing both flash and java and neither does any good. I suspect that
> the Real Player 8 RPM has changed something, but what?
Since the RPM isn't going to work with Mozilla in any case, I would first
uninstall it.
Then you may have to repair any damage done to the installation of Java and
Flash.
If you want to try RealPlayer, get the archive file.
You will have to install it manually in Mozilla and I can't get it to work.
JRT
