Bug 41993 – Mozilla does not recognize plugins

Bug 41993 - Mozilla does not recognize plugins

Summary:	Mozilla does not recognize plugins

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	mozilla (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Christopher Blizzard
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Reported:	2001-05-23 11:35 EDT by Bob Miller
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-06-05 09:49:59 EDT
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Description Bob Miller 2001-05-23 11:35:23 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686)

Description of problem:
After loading plugins like Java and restarting Mozilla, Mozilla still only
recognizes the default plugin. Have tried storing plugins both globally
(/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins) and per user. Did NOT have this problem with RH
7.0.

Netscape 4.77 continues to work fine.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start Mozilla	
2.Go to a page that requires a plugin
3.Download plugin, receive, for example "Java plugin successful"
4. Restart Mozilla
5. Mozilla load only the default plugin
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 James Cook 2001-06-01 11:34:16 EDT

I had the same problem.  I'm using the mozilla-0.9 rpms and the jdk-1.3.1 rpm
from sun.  The fix that worked for me was to make the following symlink

ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so

After that, mozilla picked up the java and flash plugins (flash seems to depend
on the java plugin because of the .class file I guess.)

Comment 2 James Cook 2001-06-01 11:37:34 EDT

Oh, you do have to run ldconfig for the change to take effect.  :)

Comment 3 Bob Miller 2001-06-05 09:49:55 EDT

Did as stated above. Java seems to work fine. However, any web page that uses
Flash causes the program to crash (e.g., weather.com).

Java 1.3.0_01
Shockware 5.0r47
KDE 2.1.1

Comment 4 Christopher Blizzard 2001-06-09 18:12:14 EDT

This should be fixed in 0.9.1 since we load the Xt libraries now.  Should be in
rawhide shortly.

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