flash (the macromedia kind) on galeon

Geert Janssens yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed May 8 02:28:02 2002 

I'm not so sure about that.

As far as I know, Mozilla DOES support plugins. I have, for example 
installed a java plugin for mozilla. Since Netscape is based on mozilla, 
I would expect it to support plugins as well.

However, as I've learned earlier on this list (you can probably find 
more on this in the archives), Mozilla changed its plugin interface 
quite often the last few releases (up until 0.9.8, I believe) which 
rendered many plugins unusable.

The java plugin was rebuild against the plugin interface for mozilla 
0.9.8, and it still works with my installation of mozilla 1.0 RC1, so I 
assume the interface has stablized now. (The java plugin I mention here 
is from Blackdown's JRE 1.3.1).

Flash is another story. According to earlier messages on this list, 
Macromedia provides nor sources nor a PPC binary of their plugin. The 
only flash compatible plugin is an open source project, which is only 
capable of displaying Flash 4 content.

And possibly this open source flash plugin faces the same problem as the 
java plugin did, namely that it broke due to the numerous interface changes.

Maybe it's worth finding the author of this open source flash plugin and 
check with him. Since I'm not using the plugin, I have to ask the list 
here. Does anybody know who wrote this ?

Cheers,
Geert

Ryan Mesler wrote:
> i would say yes. i tried installing the plugins for mozilla originall and it
> didnt work. so yeah.
> 
> Ryan Mesler
> Technical Support
> Internet America
> 
> If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0
> 
> ICQ: 45088864
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shawn Coomey" <scoomey@charter.net>
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 2:19 PM
> Subject: Re: flash (the macromedia kind) on galeon
> 
> 
> 
>>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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