Running SuSE 8.2 on an Athlon 1.3GHz Thunderbird, I reproducibly find that the browser plug-ins for Realplayer and Flash don't work in Mozilla. This happens with all versions of Mozilla, including the version included on the SuSE CDs (1.2.1 I believe), the current version 1.4 and the 1.5 beta from the mozilla.org page, and the 1.4 RPM from usr-local-bin.org. Realplayer: I've copied the rpnp.so and raclass.zip files as requested. Although the stand-alone Realplayer works fine when started from the shell by typing "realplay", the plug-in doesn't seem to work. The pop-up window with the Realplayer interface appears, then the program just stops responding, causing Mozilla to "hang". With the RPM version from usr-local-bin, I still seem to be able to close Mozilla by closing the konsole from which I've started the program; with the other versions, there seems to be no way to close the Mozilla window at all. Flash: Again, the plug-ins are installed as per Mozilla's instructions. When visiting a site with Flash content (e.g. macromedia.com), Mozilla just crashes and exits with a segfault. This happens both with the Flash plug-in on the SuSE CDs and with the version downloaded from macromedia.com. Does anyone know what this behaviour means, and how to remedy it? Thanks in advance, Dennis
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 06:51 am, Dennis Nigbur wrote:
Running SuSE 8.2 on an Athlon 1.3GHz Thunderbird, I reproducibly find that the browser plug-ins for Realplayer and Flash don't work in Mozilla. This happens with all versions of Mozilla, including the version included on the SuSE CDs (1.2.1 I believe), the current version 1.4 and the 1.5 beta from the mozilla.org page, and the 1.4 RPM from usr-local-bin.org.
Realplayer: I've copied the rpnp.so and raclass.zip files as requested. Although the stand-alone Realplayer works fine when started from the shell by typing "realplay", the plug-in doesn't seem to work. The pop-up window with the Realplayer interface appears, then the program just stops responding, causing Mozilla to "hang". With the RPM version from usr-local-bin, I still seem to be able to close Mozilla by closing the konsole from which I've started the program; with the other versions, there seems to be no way to close the Mozilla window at all.
Flash: Again, the plug-ins are installed as per Mozilla's instructions. When visiting a site with Flash content (e.g. macromedia.com), Mozilla just crashes and exits with a segfault. This happens both with the Flash plug-in on the SuSE CDs and with the version downloaded from macromedia.com.
Does anyone know what this behaviour means, and how to remedy it?
Thanks in advance,
Dennis ==================
Dennis, Are you putting the actual plugins into your /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins directory? If so, try making them symlinks to the real plugins. I am finding from many of these, that symlinks work better and in fact, are needed rather than the actual plugins. Many of the plugin makers specify that in their readme files, to make a symlink instead. Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.3-3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 7:40 pm, BandiPat wrote:
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 06:51 am, Dennis Nigbur wrote:
Running SuSE 8.2 on an Athlon 1.3GHz Thunderbird, I reproducibly find that the browser plug-ins for Realplayer and Flash don't work in Mozilla. This happens with all versions of Mozilla, including the version included on the SuSE CDs (1.2.1 I believe), the current version 1.4 and the 1.5 beta from the mozilla.org page, and the 1.4 RPM from usr-local-bin.org.
Dennis, Are you putting the actual plugins into your /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins directory? If so, try making them symlinks to the real plugins. I am finding from many of these, that symlinks work better and in fact, are needed rather than the actual plugins.
I've tried the symlink procedure in the meantime, with no beneficial effect at all. This doesn't seem to be it. Would there be any benefit, in plump Windows style, in just re-installing SuSE altogether? I get the impression that there must be something amiss deep in the system, considering that nobody else seems to have this problem and things work fine here on my Pentium II office machine also. Dennis
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