[18829] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.20: netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Feb 28 15:40:16 2001
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:40:12 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Loriann S.K. Higashi" <lhigashi@mit.edu>
cc: <bugs@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200102271937.OAA19996@cruella-de-vil.mit.edu>
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This occurs because we have, until now, deliberately excluded the
~/.netscape/plugins directory from the plugin path! This is a very old
part of the 'netscape' wrapper script; when I queried people, no one could
remember why we did it, and so much else of our setup has changed since
then that the reasons may no longer be applicable.
At any rate, I have changed the wrapper script and tested it; it now finds
local plugins. The change should be visible to you tomorrow (Thursday).
Let me know if the plugin still isn't visible (type 'about:plugins' on the
URL line to get the full list the browser is aware of).
-Todd Belton
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Loriann S.K. Higashi wrote:
> System name: cruella-de-vil.mit.edu
> Type and version: Ultra-5_10 8.4.20
> Display type: m
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
> Window manager: /mit/windowmanagers/bin/fvwm2
>
> What were you trying to do?
> I was trying to add a plugin within my account, by putting the
> correct files in .netscape/plugins
>
> What's wrong:
> Netscape doesn't recognize anything in the .netscape/plugins
> directory (and i don't know how to get it to recognize it)
>
> What should have happened:
> Maybe it should have let me add the plugins? I'm not actually
> sure... but it doesn't even show that the plugins exist...
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> Readme files for the plugins seem to infer that once I copy the
> files to my .netscape/plugins directory, they should be recognized by
> netscape (yes, I did close netscape before doing the plugins thing)
>
