Netscape and missing libnullplugin.so

Netscape and missing libnullplugin.so

[Kevin_Hendricks]

Hi,

I now have the source to the java plugin for Netscape/Mozilla (via my license 
with Blackdown) and I have ported both the java plugin 1.1.2 (allowing the use 
of jdk118 inside Netscape and plugin 1.2 (to allow the forthcoming jdk 1.2.2 to 
work within netscape).

I have been unable to get either plugin to be recognized by the latest Netscape 
rpm available from LinuxPPC.

I went and downloaded the Sparc version of the plugin to see how the whole 
process worked under Solaris and noticed that the Solaris Netscape plugins 
already includes a libnullplugin.so which does not seem to exist in the ppc 
version of Netscape.  The description of libnullplugin.so is that it helps 
support plugins under Netscape.

Should there be a libnullplugin.so in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ under ppc?  Is 
it needed to get other plugins to work?

Any info here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Kevin



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Re: Netscape and missing libnullplugin.so

[Ani Joshi]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Kevin_Hendricks wrote:

> Should there be a libnullplugin.so in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ under ppc?  Is 
> it needed to get other plugins to work?

	you should get rid of libnullplugin.so, iirc its supposed to
prompt you and take you to a page where you can d/l plugin, but it has
been my experience with 3.x and 4.x that this plugin does not work.
also, is your NPX_PLUGIN_PATH set properly?


ani


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Re: Netscape and missing libnullplugin.so

[Kostas Gewrgiou]

  I don't think that netscape supports plugins, i to use the flash plugin (the
free one not macromedia's) some time ago but netscape never recognized the
plugin :(

  Kostas Gewrgiou.

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Kevin_Hendricks wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I now have the source to the java plugin for Netscape/Mozilla (via my license 
> with Blackdown) and I have ported both the java plugin 1.1.2 (allowing the use 
> of jdk118 inside Netscape and plugin 1.2 (to allow the forthcoming jdk 1.2.2 to 
> work within netscape).
> 
> I have been unable to get either plugin to be recognized by the latest Netscape 
> rpm available from LinuxPPC.
> 
> I went and downloaded the Sparc version of the plugin to see how the whole 
> process worked under Solaris and noticed that the Solaris Netscape plugins 
> already includes a libnullplugin.so which does not seem to exist in the ppc 
> version of Netscape.  The description of libnullplugin.so is that it helps 
> support plugins under Netscape.
> 
> Should there be a libnullplugin.so in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ under ppc?  Is 
> it needed to get other plugins to work?
> 
> Any info here would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Kevin B. Hendricks
> Associate Professor of Operations and Information Technology
> Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
> London, Ontario  N6A-3K7  CANADA   
> khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca, (519) 661-3874, fax: 519-661-3959
> 
> 
> 


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Re: Netscape and missing libnullplugin.so

[Jeff Zahourek]

I believe the libnullplugin.so is needed. I built the Plugger 3.0 plugin
on linuxppc but it would not work. I have the same plugin working on
linux-i386. The i386 Netscape v4.7 has libnullplugin.so and removing it
causes Plugger 3.0 to fail exactly as it does on the Netscape v4.7 on
linuxppc. Put it back and the plugin works normally.

Jeff
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