[KLUG Members] Re: Galeon & Plug-ins

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 19:55, Adam Williams wrote:
> I have the PDF plugin working wonderfully in Galeon/Mozilla.
> But I can't find a way to list the plugins that the systems thinks it
> found.  In netscape plugs show up in the preferences bound to mime
> types.  In Galeon settings plugins don't show up.

Er, Plugins != MIME Handlers.

   Help -> About Plugins

That's the list you should use under _both_ Netscape _and_
Mozilla/Galeon.  Just because Netscape "lists" it under MIME types does
_not_ mean it works.  ;->

> I have rpnp.so (which is provided by the Realplayer 8.0-1 RPM) but the
> system doesn't act like it picks it up.  But then I can't tell if the
> browser is not finding it or if the remote site is just being finicky.

Did you copy the plugin (or symlink it) to the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
directory?  Also be sure you don't have _multiple_
/usr/lib/mozilla-*VER* directories.

Again:
   Help -> About Plugins

-- Bruyan

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