Netscape and Pluggins

[Datawolf]

Perhaps one of your plugin directories managed to get itself not
readable by anyone besides root (rwx------ or similar), or perhaps those
plugins are isntalled in root's personal plugin directory
(/root/.netscape/plugins ?)?

-BVG

The Wolf wrote:
> 
> I have killed off the pluggin list.
> Netscape recreated it without a problem
> but it still does not indicate the
> pluggins are installed.
> 
> Datawolf wrote:
> >
> > There was a bug (dunno if it was fixed) with Netscape not properly
> > regenerating the ~/.netscape/plugin-list file.  You might experiment
> > with renaming that, so that a new one is created.
> >
> > BTW, if you haven't seen plugger
> > <http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html>, it's a nice generic plugin
> > which handles lots of file types (video, sound, etc.) mainly by using
> > standard Linux progs.
> >
> > -BVG
> >
> > The Wolf wrote:
> > >
> > > I am running into a peculiar problem with my netscape.
> > >
> > > If I running netscape as root I can see installed pluggins,
> > > however any other user does not see them.
> > > They are still there, but when a website checks
> > > the existance of the pluggin before the page is
> > > loaded it always indicates the pluggin is not there.
> > >
> > > Also I can see abou:pluggins as root but not as
> > > any other user.
> > >
> > > I have tested the pluggins functionlity on the www.flash.com
> > > and it runs fine after I click on the bottom of the page with:
> > >
> > > If you know you have Flash Player installed click here.
> > >
> > > I am assuming it is some type of premission problem, I just do not
> > > know where.
> > >
> > > The Wolf