Adobe plugin for mozilla

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Mon Sep 15 10:41:52 EDT 2003


for me personally, I would rather mozilla (galeon) just fire up ggv,
that works fine for me.

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 10:34, Darin Perusich wrote:

> do you have the plugin listed when you view about:plugins?
> 
> there is a bug which causes mozilla to seg fault when using the PDf 
> plugin, mozilla starts to load the read then dies. this exists on 
> solaris still, i'm not sure about linux. you can get around it by adding 
> the line 'pref("plugin.soname.list","libXm.so");' to mozilla's unix.js 
> preferences file, removing $HOME/.mozilla and reopening mozilla.
> 
> Riga, Anthony wrote:
> > Pete
> >    The problem is is when I want to view a .pdf page on the web the 
> > helper runs and then says appropiate plugin not installed. I tried this 
> > on 2 *nix boxes and had the same results.  How do I get ggv to load in 
> > Mozilla? I hate Adobe anyways. Thanks!
> > 
> >     -----Original Message-----
> >     From: Cyber Source [mailto:peter at thecybersource.com]
> >     Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 9:36 AM
> >     To: nflug at nflug.org
> >     Subject: RE: Adobe plugin for mozilla
> > 
> >     I saw this one and tried to fool around with it so I could give you
> >     some feedback. My office machine is still on RH8, so I downloaded
> >     what I thought was the rpm for the *.pdf plugin for mozilla. It
> >     installed the plugin into /usr/lib/mozilla and in that it did
> >     nothing. When I made a symlink to it from within
> >     /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1 it was starting to seg fault mozilla. I could
> >     not stop this from happening until I removed the rpm from the
> >     system. Now I am back to normal. I like ggv for *.pdf's, how come
> >     you don't want mozilla to just open ggv when you want to view a
> >     *.pdf? Or, if you need to have this new version of Adobe 5.07, why
> >     not just have mozilla open this?
> > 
> >     On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 09:07, Riga, Anthony wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >>
> >>I loaded the new version of Adobe 5.07 for Linux. I installed the plugin to the mozilla plugin folder /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/plugins/nppdf.so and added it to my mozilla helper. When I try to load a pdf in mozilla the helper runs but the pdf never loads. What is the trick to getting this to work?  Thanks
> >> 
> > 
> >     -- 
> >     Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com
> >     <mailto:peter at thecybersource.com>>
> > 
> > 

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