mozilla plugins not listed

WhyteWolf · Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2002 2:26 am Post subject: mozilla plugins not listed

I seem to have a problem with plugins with in mozilla 1.0

they arn't listed nor do they work

yet I know they worked before I recently reinstalled gentoo on this box{I tend to distro hop alot}
however now they arn't listed with in mozilla

they are with in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

and everything emerged without error

Techie2000 · Guru Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 344

try copying them to /usr/local/mozilla/plugins? I don't know if its different with the eBuild, but I download nightly builds and that's where they plugins go for me.
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WhyteWolf · Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2002 5:18 am Post subject:

nope didn't work :/

I think it hasta do with the compile tho
cause I just noticed another problem I can't cut and paste
with mozilla ... at all
the copy paste doesn't work as well as the select and middle
click ... I know this too was working last time I tried mozilla on
this box
... and I've unmerged and remerged mozilla three times now
with diffrent use varblies

rommel · Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2002 5:36 am Post subject:

you might want to delete the .mozilla directory in your home directory too...not doing so and recompiling mozilla can cause strange shit to happen

WhyteWolf · Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2002 10:07 am Post subject:

still a nogo ... I"m starting to think it's either something
I installed ... or something that didn't get installed unforchantly
last time I had nearly everything installed before I wiped the HD
so I have no idea what could not be there

therobot · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 256 Location: Canada

I had the not being able to cut and paste problem before as well, I don't remember what i did about that....

The Shadow Surfer · Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2002 11:56 am Post subject:

If you are using gcc3.x you have too look at:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=4753

WhyteWolf · Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2002 12:56 pm Post subject:

unforchantly I don't have gcc 3.x I tried that a while ago
but it didn't work out that was before my last reinstall

useing gcc2.95.3
but the fact I seem to be the only one having this problem
{with the plugins} means I"m probely messing up somewhere
and don't even know it ... which drives me even more nuts

dioxmat · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 8:17 am Post subject:

check your permissions, never knows.
also reading http://plugindoc.mozdev.org can help sometimes.
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n0n · Guru Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 355

I had problems with Mozilla copy-n-paste some time ago, and what fixed it was simply re-emerging Mozilla (yeah, I know that's a pain 'cause it's so huge, but it did fix the problem for me). I also had some problems getting Mozilla to recognize all of my plugins. What had happened in my case was that I had been splitting up some plugins between /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and ~/.mozilla/<blah>/<blah>/plugins. Moving everything over to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins fixed that.

St.Purple · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 15 Location: Rotterdam, NL

Nope you're not the only one with this problem...I just finished installing on my desktop system.
Emerging moilla and some plugins (flash, shockwave) went smooth but mozilla doesn't see them.
Permissions of the symlinks (the real files seem to be in /opt/netscape/plugins) are ok.
The same plugins DO work in opera.....

Another weird thing is my cursor. While I'm typing this the letters appear correct but I don't hav a cursor

dioxmat · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 2:24 pm Post subject:

are you using gtk2 (check your USE var :)
mozilla gtk2 support isnt finished, its still experimental...
also gcc 3.x /was/ known to cause a number of problems, dunno if it was fixed.
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orochi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Aug 2002 Posts: 76

i have a sim link in my home dir plugins->/path/to/plugins and that works for me.