Re: Windows Firefox does not find my plugin

Thanks!  That was it, that was not obvious to me ;)

On Sep 17, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:

> On 9/17/2012 3:47 PM, Rudi Sherry wrote:
>> I'm building a skeleton NPAPI plugin to test specific functionality and I cannot get Firefox to see it.  I'm on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine.
>> 
>> I have added:
>> 
>> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MozillaPlugins\PluginBug
>>   (Default)   REG_SZ (value not set)
>>   Description REG_SZ "Test"
>>   Path        REG_SZ <path-to-my-plugin>\npPluginBug.dll
>>   ProductName REG_SZ PluginBug
>>   Version     REG_SZ 1.0.1
>>   Vendor      REG_SZ Me
>> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MozillaPlugins\PluginBug\MimeTypes\application/vnd.pluginbug
> I suspect that there is nothing wrong with the registry entries. What's 
> more interesting to Firefox is the data built into the resource entries 
> of the DLL. Specifically I noticed that when I was making my own 
> testplugin version that I needed the resource to be in a specific 
> language/codepage:
> 
> https://github.com/bsmedberg/blue-fishmonger-testplugin/blob/master/bsmedberg-testplugin/testplugin.rc
> 
>  VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1252
> 
> was necessary, and the default provided by the Visual Studio wizard was '1200' not '1252'.
> 
> --BDS
>