Re: Re: My Top Picks: Long Rant

PLEASE try Firebird.  You'll be really glad you did.  Be sure to install
the 1.4.2 version of Java first, as Firebird is compiled with GCC 3 and
is incompatible with earlier versions of java.  

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 10:05, Jay Smith wrote:
> Unfortunately, Plugger broke soon after installation -- and I never got 
> some things working before it broke completely.  Since fixing something 
> like that (or figuring out what the fix is) costs me *real* (i.e. US$ 
> 60-70) money per-hour, I left it broken.  Now if I click on a link that is 
> a PDF file, Mozilla crashes, etc., etc.
> 
> I contacted the Plugger author via his website, but got no response of any 
> kind.
> 
> I was using it with Mozilla 1.2 and am now about to replace that with 1.4 
> so will try to get Plugger working again.
> 
> Jay
> 
> Andy Wallace wrote:
> >>Hmm, do you guys know about "plugger"?
> >>(http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html) It uses the netscape plugin API
> >>to install a play-in-the-browser view for most media formats (including
> >>those that mplayer can view). It comes with its own set of problems -
> >>e.g. you open the file in plugger, but you can't use "Save as...",
> >>but it's better than nothing (-:
> >>
> >>No distribution will ship it because of the restrictions on the Netscape
> >>plugin API, so you have to download it from netscape and build plugger
> >>from source.
> > 
> > 
> > Not true - Red Hat 8.0 is shipped with Plugger as an rpm (although it is
> > a Mozilla plugin as Netscape is not included).
> > 
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               Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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