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Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 07:54:42 -0400
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Kavitha <kavitha@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: unix plugins
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Kavitha:
 |  I want to know if there are any plugins for Unix based platforms,
 |specifically for FreeBSD, NetBSD, AIX? Most of the plugins I found on the
 |Web are for Windows & Mac.  I have found a plugin-sdk for unix from
 |netscape developer site. But it just doesn't work, i.e. I'm able to
 |create the sharable object module and put it in .netscpae/plugins.  But
 |netscape just doesn't recognise it. It doesn't even give any error. It
 |behaves as if the netscape/plugins directory is empty. Has anyone tried
 |this before? Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

I've had plugins working on FreeBSD with the Linux version of Netscape
only  (of course, the plug-ins need to be Linux .so's).  

However, Netscape didn't choose to add plug-in support to the BSD version
of Netscape, at least they haven't as of version 3.0x -- I don't know about
4.x.

Randall Hopper