flash (the macromedia kind) on galeon

[Shawn Coomey]

Does this apply to Mozilla?

Shawn


On Sunday, May 5, 2002, at 02:41 PM, Ryan Mesler wrote:

> that really blows!!
>
> Ryan Mesler
> Technical Support
> Internet America
>
> If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0
>
> ICQ: 45088864
> AIM: Kraylus
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Serphillips" <rserphillips@austin.rr.com>
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 8:23 AM
> Subject: Re: flash (the macromedia kind) on galeon
>
>
>> Let me clarify that. Netscape for linuxppc does not support plugins.
>> Plugins work just fine on x86 netscape. The disadvantages of being a
>> computing minority.
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 5 May 2002 13:22:27 -0500
>> "Ryan Mesler" <kraylus@airmail.net> wrote:
>>
>>> im going to have to disagree... how can netscape not support plugins?
> this
>>> statement is false. it even has a plugins folder. and i have gotten
> netscape
>>> on my i386 machines to run with flash just fine. i would get opera 
>>> but i
> was
>>> unaware that it had a ppc port. and last time i used opera for linux 
>>> it
> was
>>> quite lame.
>>>
>>> i'll end up getting ns 6.2 more than likely.
>>>
>>> Ryan Mesler
>>> Technical Support
>>> Internet America
>>>
>>> If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0
>>>
>>> ICQ: 45088864
>>> AIM: Kraylus
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Robert Serphillips" <rserphillips@austin.rr.com>
>>> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>>> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 8:04 AM
>>> Subject: Re: flash (the macromedia kind) on galeon
>>>
>>>
>>>> Netscape doesn't support plug-ins. Mozilla/Galeon will work with 
>>>> flash
> but
>>> usually crash trying to load the next page.
>>>> The only browser that runs flash consistently is opera. And it only
> runs
>>> older flash content with no sound.
>>>>
>>>> -Rob
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 4 May 2002 16:35:30 -0500
>>>> "Ryan Mesler" <kraylus@airmail.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> ok ladies and gents! i got the cdrom issues resolved. i just told
> the
>>> fstab
>>>>> that the cdrom was located at /dev/hdb and all was well.
>>>>>
>>>>> anyhoo, here's the new issue. i love galeon alot! i think it's a
> killer
>>>>> browser. so i figured in order to make my life complete i should get
>>> flash
>>>>> installed for it. so i got the linux flash version and followed the
>>>>> instructions and put it in the plugins dir. however, since galeon
> runs
>>> off
>>>>> of mozilla, i put it in the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins dir instead
> since i
>>>>> dunno if galeon even HAS a plugins dir (i looked up info on it and
>>> couldnt
>>>>> find any).
>>>>>
>>>>> it didn't work :( so i fired up mozilla and tested to see if it at
> least
>>>>> worked in mozilla. it did not. what am i doing wrong? i've done this
> in
>>> the
>>>>> past for slackware, redhat, and mandrake using the netscape browser
> and
>>> got
>>>>> flash working just fine. why won't it work in mozilla?
>>>>>
>>>>> will i be forced to use netscape?? ack!!
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks for your time!
>>>>>
>>>>> Ryan Mesler
>>>>> Technical Support
>>>>> Internet America
>>>>>
>>>>> If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0
>>>>>
>>>>> ICQ: 45088864
>>>>> AIM: Kraylus
>>>>>
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