Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 01:25:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us (James C. Durham) Cc: cjclark@home.com, mwlucas@exceptionet.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stupid Netscape question Message-ID: <199905080525.BAA20555@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <3733C0FE.655748C8@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> from "James C. Durham" at "May 8, 99 04:43:42 am"
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James C. Durham wrote, > "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > > > mwlucas@exceptionet.com wrote, > >> > Is there any way to patch other applications in for Netscape plug-ins? > > > Netscape 3.04 I'm running here, click 'Options' then 'General > > Preferences.' Hit the 'Helpers' tab and modify the 'audio/x-wav' entry > > (it is probably already there) to use the program of choice. > > > > On later versions of Netscape, it's a different route to find the > > 'Helper' list, but the same basic process. > > I found that on 4.5, if the thing is called a "plug in", > you can't override it with a "helper" application. I get > the same error on wav files embedded in web pages. I > have tried using the "helper" list and also hand-editing > the preferences file in .netscape, but it just ignores > anything I do, so I think if it's looking for a plug-in, > that's different than a helper application. I fired up my Netscape 4.5 at home to take a look at this. There is an entry in my 'Helper' list as follows, * Plug-in : Netscape default Plugin This is a catch-all for unknown types. As for your audio problem, Netscape loads plugins at run-time. The plugins contain information about what they are supposed to be able to interpret. This information is probably clobbering your helper info each time you fire up Netscape. You can nuke a plugin so this does not happen. They are located at, /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/ If you want to keep the plugin (because it might do some things right, but others wrong), you _can_ go in and mess with the binary... but I would not recommend it. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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