Netscape and missing libnullplugin.so

[Kostas Gewrgiou]

  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.

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Kevin_Hendricks wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Kevin B. Hendricks
> Associate Professor of Operations and Information Technology
> Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
> London, Ontario  N6A-3K7  CANADA   
> khendricks at ivey.uwo.ca, (519) 661-3874, fax: 519-661-3959
> 
> 
> 


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