Plugin question

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What's so confusing about all plugins for Mozilla going in mozilla/plugins?

On 12/17/02 19:42, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Well, the plugin question was solved, and macromedia flash works fine, and
> so far no crashes, but only time will tell.
> 
> My confusion was that the plugins in opera's plugin directory were not appearing
> in the plugin list in preferences.
> This seems to be because opera uses lippnpp.so to access all the plugins in
> the opera plugin directory. So, in the plugin list, all you see is libnpp.
> However, things seem to to work.
> 
> I just wish there was a howto somewhere which clearly explained this stuff.
> For example, opera seems to make no distinction, in its documentation and
> installation, of plugins and standalone applications. Maybe it just doesn't
> explain standalone applications. This all seemed much clearer with  netscape
> 4.75. I suppose this confusion is really progress, cleverly disguised.
> 
> Joel
> 
>  
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 08:13:08PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
>> Sorry for posting such a simple question but I have never seen an
>> explanation of plugins that makes sense to me.
>> 
>> I have gotten the newest flash plugin, 6.0, to avoid the unix remote xterminal
>> bug.
>> 
>> In order to install this program, I had to install new versions of make,
>> gcc, and glibc. This has been an all day process.
>> 
>> I have now debugged the flash install script enuf so that I have gotten
>> it to put the plugin into the /usr/lib/opera/plugin directory. Here are
>> the contents of that directory.
>> 
>> shplayer.xpt  libflashplayer.so  libnpp.so  libnpp.so.0  libnpp.so.0.1
>> libnpp.so.0.1.8  operamotifwrapper  plugger.so 

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