Netscape and missing libnullplugin.so
Hi,
I now have the source to the java plugin for Netscape/Mozilla (via my license with Blackdown) and I have ported both the java plugin 1.1.2 (allowing the use of jdk118 inside Netscape and plugin 1.2 (to allow the forthcoming jdk 1.2.2 to work within netscape).
I have been unable to get either plugin to be recognized by the latest Netscape rpm available from LinuxPPC.
I went and downloaded the Sparc version of the plugin to see how the whole process worked under Solaris and noticed that the Solaris Netscape plugins already includes a libnullplugin.so which does not seem to exist in the ppc version of Netscape. The description of libnullplugin.so is that it helps support plugins under Netscape.
Should there be a libnullplugin.so in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ under ppc? Is it needed to get other plugins to work?
Any info here would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin
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Quoted 2 lines · Kevin_Hendricks
Should there be a libnullplugin.so in
/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/under ppc? Is it needed to get other plugins to work?
you should get rid of libnullplugin.so, iirc its supposed to
prompt you and take you to a page where you can d/l plugin, but it has been my experience with 3.x and 4.x that this plugin does not work. also, is your NPX_PLUGIN_PATH set properly?
ani
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I don't think that netscape supports plugins, i to use the flash plugin (the
free one not macromedia's) some time ago but netscape never recognized the plugin :(
Kostas Gewrgiou.
Quoted 28 lines · Kevin_Hendricks
Hi,
I now have the source to the java plugin for Netscape/Mozilla (via my license with Blackdown) and I have ported both the java plugin 1.1.2 (allowing the use of jdk118 inside Netscape and plugin 1.2 (to allow the forthcoming jdk 1.2.2 to work within netscape).
I have been unable to get either plugin to be recognized by the latest Netscape rpm available from LinuxPPC.
I went and downloaded the Sparc version of the plugin to see how the whole process worked under Solaris and noticed that the Solaris Netscape plugins already includes a libnullplugin.so which does not seem to exist in the ppc version of Netscape. The description of libnullplugin.so is that it helps support plugins under Netscape.
Should there be a libnullplugin.so in
/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/under ppc? Is it needed to get other plugins to work?Any info here would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin
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Kevin B. Hendricks
Associate Professor of Operations and Information Technology Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A-3K7 CANADA [email protected], (519) 661-3874, fax: 519-661-3959
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I believe the libnullplugin.so is needed. I built the Plugger 3.0 plugin on linuxppc but it would not work. I have the same plugin working on linux-i386. The i386 Netscape v4.7 has libnullplugin.so and removing it causes Plugger 3.0 to fail exactly as it does on the Netscape v4.7 on linuxppc. Put it back and the plugin works normally.
Jeff
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