Mozilla Plugins

[MarkSyder]

Hi everybody.

I've just been installing Mozilla plugins (jpi, sdk, and PHCO_29960) but when I try to access the test pages on http://java.sun.com/products/plugin it tells me that the appropriate plugins are not installed.

I have followed the instructions on the installation page and everything appears to be set up correctly.

Any ideas?

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Dino_4]

Do you see it installed correctly, when you look at 'Help' --> 'About Plugins'?

What Version is displayed?

[Tom Ward_1]

Hello Mark,

Did you add a link in your plugin directory to the java plugin? I know I've missed that before when installing java.

From mozilla's plugin page (this is for linux, but still applies):
. Install Java Runtime Environment.
2. Make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your Mozilla Plugins directory.

Java Plugin FAQ
For Mozilla 1.4 or later, and Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 or later, you most likely want the ns610-gcc32 version of the Java Plugin. This can be verified by using about:buildconfig to check if gcc 2.9x or gcc 3.x was used to build Mozilla.

If you've put the link in and it still doesn't work. Check your permissons on java.

Do you see java installed when you go to Help, About Plug-ins?

Also you can try running mozilla from the command line and you may have some clues in your terminal. I installed the shockwave flash plug-in the other day and it wasn't finding all it's libraries. Thankfully that showed in the terminal. Once I added some links to mozilla's home dir, that worked fine.

Good luck,
Tom

[MarkSyder]

Hi Dino and Tom.

Excuse the delay in replying, but Friday's our early finish day.

When I go on to the about:plugins page it shows a long list of java plugins up to and including application/x-java-applet;version 1.4.2_01, all of which are shown as enabled.

The link is correctly set up, but the suffix is sl not so - is so the suffix for linux or am I missing a file?

The appropriate directories have full execute permissions.

I cannot find about:buildconfig so tried a find on *gcc*. This didn't reveal anything of note.

Running mozilla from the command line does not produce any error messages.

Any further suggestions will be appreciated.

Mark

[Hemanth Gurunath Basrur]

Hello Mark,

Refer to the foll. link for info.

http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/mozilla/mozilla_plugins.html

HTH.

Regards,
Hemanth

[Sam McKnight]

Mark and Tom,

Mark, referring to your question, and Tom, referring to your response, I have had a problem installing Flash Player 6. I installed it on hp-ux 11.11 last week.

When starting mozilla for a user in a terminal window the first time after installing Flash Player, the following three messages appear in the terminal window:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library libXt.sl [No such file or directory]
...libXext.sl...
...libXm.sl...

where each is the same except for the file name. After mozilla is started for a user, the messages no longer appear.

I checked, and there is a link in /opt/mozilla/plugins to /opt/flash/plugins/libflashplayer.so

My sound seems to be working but my video is not. Tom, is this the problem you had? If so, how did you fix it?

Thanks for your help,
Sam McKnight

[Steven E. Protter]

I have found java 1.4 very shakey on my D and L class boxes.

With the latest java 1.3 and flash installed, browsers work pretty well on all my boxes.

i got most of it in depot format but can't remember where flash came from, maybe the porting archive center.

Java from http://www.hp.com/go/java

SEP

[Sam McKnight]

My problem with Flash Player 6 turned out to be that I have a Visualize EG 8-bit graphics card but need a Visualize 24-bit fxe card.

Sam McKnight

[Tom Ward_1]

Mark,

I based my response on my experiences with Linux. The sufix may well be different.

Sam,

I did install Flash on a system with mozilla under HPUX and had to link some libraries from /usr/lib/X11R4 to /opt/mozilla.

Regards,
tom

[BSSG]

On the subject of Plug-ins, I did use Flash 6.0 with Mozilla 1.4 for a while, but I ran into a known* problem where jumping quickly between pages that display Flash images can cause intermittent browser crashes. This was happening 3-4 times a week, and became a bit disruptive, so I ended up having to remove Flash. Hopefully this will be resolved with a later release of the Flash bundle.

I wonder when, or if, HP will be releasing a version of Flash 7?

--
Bob

*See: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200511

[MarkSyder]

I don't know, Bob, but thanks for reminding me I hadn't awarded points. Mainly because it's still not working - but the users can do everything they need to do, which is the important thing.

Mark