[18835] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.20: netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Wed Feb 28 17:04:54 2001
Message-Id: <200102282204.RAA29271@multics.mit.edu>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
cc: "Loriann S.K. Higashi" <lhigashi@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:40:12 EST."
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:04:51 -0500
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
> 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.
I would guess that it's related to the fact that a plugin compiled for the
Linux systems is not liable to work when you're running Netscape on a Sun
or an SGI.
--
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>
