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reves Apprentice
Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 215 Location: South Florida
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 5:00 am Post subject: Mozilla preferences and plugins are not working correctly |
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I recently installed a 1.4rc1 system. Everything seemed to go fine but Mozilla. It will not store preferences in the Navigator settings. I can change settings from any other catagory but all the settings in the Navigator section are blank by default and to not hold thier settings when I cahnge them.
On a (possibly) related note no plugins are not working. I have installed the Blackdown Java plugin and the Netscape-Flash plugin. I tried the fix for plugins compiled with GCC 2.x but that did not resolve the issue. When I go to Help | About Plugins I get the following message:
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No plug-ins are installed.
Fine more information about browser plug-ins at Netscape.com
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When I try to go to a site that requires a plugin I get the message:
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Mozilla cannot find the Plugin Downloader Plugin. With the Plugin Downloader Plugin, you cannot automatically download and install plugins. Please visit http://www.netscape.com/ to install the Plugin Downloader Plugin.
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A third thing I noticed while typing this is that copying and pasting is not working in Mozilla. Not with the Copy and Paste menu options or by higlighting to copy and the thrid mouse button to paste. _________________ Robert |
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orochi Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 02 Aug 2002 Posts: 76
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 6:58 am Post subject: gtk2? |
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are u compiling it with gtk2 support? gtk2 messes up the plugins for me, but the copy paste works... |
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ch0c0b0 n00b
Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 55 Location: New York, NY
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Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 2:49 am Post subject: |
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I have also noticed these problems with gtk2 flags on. Once I rebuilt mozilla withouth the gtk2 flags, all worked well (except for Ctrl-A to select all text in Composer)
As for the plug-ins, do you have the Software Installation enabled (under Preferences>Advanced>Software Installation) ? |
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Xinos n00b
Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Posts: 42 Location: Birmingham, Alabama
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Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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I never really understood how to get plugins working well but when I figured it out it was one of those slap on the foreheads duh kinda things. Download the appropriate plugin and then install it like it says. It will create a .so file this is the plugin. All you have to do is copy the .so file to your plugin directory either in mozilla or netscape. My path is /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/, yours may be slightly different. This will cause all plugins to work.
On the other problem I would try to unmerge and then emerge again it worked fine for me installing mozilla, the last time about 3 weeks ago. Good luck. |
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reves Apprentice
Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 215 Location: South Florida
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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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I tried using -gtk2 in my USE settings, I had previously had it it eneabled, but that didn't resolve the issue. I was having various other problems so I went back to 1.2 and everything is working fine now. _________________ Robert |
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DiskDoc Apprentice
Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 196 Location: Finland
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 4:07 am Post subject: Copying & pasteing in mozilla |
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I had trouble with copy / paste too after installing Gentoo 1.4 RC1.. Adding -gtk2 to /etc/make.conf and re-emerging mozilla solved the problem. |
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maw Apprentice
Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 175 Location: Nottingham, UK
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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I still can't get Blackdown Java plugin working for some reason, I've got symlinks from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and everything - the ebuild for Blackdown just put them there! Nothing works though, it reckons the plugin isn't there. Flash appears to be working fine though. It's most odd. Any ideas anyone?
Mozilla 1.1, GCC 3.2 compile, latest Blackdown JDK from portage. USE gtk2 is NOT set and never has been. _________________ Your Gentoo woll sle me sodenly!
I may the beaute of it not sustene
(to misquote Chaucer) |
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bOOyahkASHa n00b
Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 27
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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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You're opening a can of worms there Maw. In short, the portage Blackdown JDK won't work with your Mozilla compiled with GCC3.2.
Check out this thread, and maybe this thread for some more clues.
Summary: you need to rebuild a Java run time with GCC3.2. The one most people round here seem to be opting for is Sun's 1.4.0 JDK. However, lots of us have found that, even though the rebuilt Java plug-in now shows up in Mozilla's list of plug-ins, Mozilla will crash when trying to host a Java applet. Galeon, unsurprisingly, behaves the same way
Good luck pal. If you manage to host applets without Moz taking a nose-dive, please shout your method from the rooftops. _________________ bOOyah |
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