Re: Flash Problem on SGI machine with Mozilla Browser

You are correct Mårten ABout :Plugin ==>

Default Plugin
     File name:  libnullplugin.so
     The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions
that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins.

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
*
==>

just the default

But the instalation instructions were followed explicitly, as spelled 
out in the README file. The files are in .mozilla/plugin directory

ls $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/
./                     ../                    ShockwaveFlash.class
libflashplayer.so
with 644 permissons [-rw-r--r--]

And I have done this more than twice, so it should not be a download 
problem unless the code on the remote server is in question, or the 
instruction set incomplete.

Thanks


--  Adam  --


Mårten Svantesson wrote:
> Adam Smith <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am using an SGI O2 machine 6.5 O/S, w/ a Mozilla 1.4 browser, visiting 
>>a site that requires a x-shockwave-flash plugin. I am taken to the 
>>macromedia page for the plugin but the specific plugin is not available. 
>>It lists a Netscape Plugin as compatible which I download and followed 
>>the instructions as to the installation as best I could. On completion 
>>it did not work, could anyone say why it did not, and what is the solution
>>The files untarred were :
>>ShockwaveFlash.class     libflashplayer.so
>>which were placed in /usr/freeware/mozilla/plugins
> 
> 
> If the plugin was properly installed you should get a "Shockwave
> Flash" entry in the URL about:plugins.
> 
> If it's installed but the page is still not working that's probably
> because the page you are looking at is not coded in a standards
> compliant way and thus not working i Mozilla. I cannot say if this
> really is the case without knowing what page you are looking at.
> 
> One page about these things are
> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/
> 
> What I do in those occasions is viewing the source of the page,
> finding the location of the Flash film and paste it in the location
> bar by hand. Hint: the file extension is .swf.
>