I believe the mimetype stuff in prefs > panel is useless-UI.. cause plugin's page gets all those associated with it.
-Dman84 Paul Bergsagel wrote: > Phillip, > > If you would like to know which plug-ins are installed in Mozilla go to > the menu bar and click on "Help" and then "About Plug-ins". This will > list all the installed plugins and let you know if they are enabled or > not. Knowing if a plug-in is enabled or not is useful for plug-ins such > as Quicktime which can be configured to for many mimme tpyes such as > Shockwave. BTW I find Quciktime is more reliable for playing Shockwave > than the Shcokwave plug-in. When I click on "About Plug-ins" I believe > all my plug-ins appear in the list. Is there a remote chance you > accidently installed the plug-ins in the "Search Plug-in" folder and > rather than the "Plug-ins" folder. > > Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: > >> >> Travis Crump wrote: >> >>> Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: >>> >>> >>>> As far as the web browser goes N6 is standards compatible. Communicator >>>> 4.X isn't. >>>> >>>> OTOH: with the exception of allowing for muliple mailboxes and Mail >>>> accounts. The Communicator still works much better. >>>> >>>> The biggest fault is lack of the Location bar in Mail and news in two >>>> pane mode. (You can't get rid of that %^&*@# IE like side bar so you >>>> can >>>> have much more reading room. IN MOz/N6 in order to switch servers (for >>>> mail) is to click on sidebar to open select the server then close >>>> the sidebar. >>>> >>>> Next on the Mac platform plugins are broken. >>>> >>>> The applications menu in preferences doesn't work on the Mac Platform. >>>> >>>> Moz/N6 doesn't allow for uses of embedded sounds (at least the Mac >>>> platform). >>>> >>>> If you run across a newsgroup that uses old style layer tags which are >>>> not allowed in MOZ/N6 the image flash on and off at a rapid rate and >>>> the only way to get out of the post is to do a restart of the computer >>>> (again the Mac platform). If someone has embedded the sound the console >>>> appears but instead of the sound a window appears with raw code. >>>> (Mac Platform) >>>> >>>> Setting of threading and showing unread messages in email (at least for >>>> Mac platform) still doesn't work right) They do have it working >>>> correctly in newsgroups. They don't stick in email though. >>>> >>>> Even on a G4-500 with 1.5gb of system RAM its still about 3 times or >>>> more slower to open up at start even with Communicator having tons of >>>> Bookmarks, and system having tons of Fonts. >>>> >>>> >>>> If and when they get all the above fixed then it will truely be a >>>> replacement to Communicator. >>>> >>>> But until then i will continue to test Moz and N6. And I will continue >>>> to use Communicator until verstion 5.9.9.9.9 or until such time as the >>>> above issues are addressed. >>>> >>>> >>>> Jonathan Wilson wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> What in particular makes 4.x better than 6 for the users? >>>>> Also, given that netscape is focused on netscape 6, why do they still >>>>> even bother to support 4.x? >>>>> >>>>> >>> Although I have never used Mozilla on Mac, in my experience automatic >>> plugin detection doesn't work and plugins need to be manually added to >>> the mozilla/./plugin folder. I forget how you figure out which files >>> you need to copy in there since I just copy my plugin folder from one >>> build to another, but I am sure someone else will know... This does not >>> mean that plugins are 'broken', Mozilla just doesn't know you have them >>> until you tell him. >>> >> >> >> If they are placed in plugins folder how do you tell Moz or Netscape Mac >> that they are in the folder? >> >> In Communicator if a plugin is in the folder once the application is >> quit and restarted the plugin shows up in the edit > preferences > >> Navigator > applications menu. see example attached (gif). To have to >> figure out what mime type to work with maually is dumb Quicktime for Mac >> alone handles 50 different Mime types. >> >> Besides maually adding a mime type you can try a Mime type (assuming you >> know description and other stuff. Once entered it disappears as soon as >> click okay. and the exercise is for naught. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >
