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From: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>
To: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Brian N. Handy wrote:

> Heya folks,
> 
> I managed to get Netscape3 (for Linux) working with plugins and with the
> PDF plugin specifically.  I just downloaded NS4.0Bsomething...and it
> doesn't seem to find my plugins, in spite of some heroic efforts on my
> part.
> 
> Anybody know if the 4.0 unknown-bsd port supports plugins?
> 
> Brian

I tried 4.0b2 and it just didn't work very well at all.. No luck with
plugins either. It was also VERY slow, although I'm not sure why.

(Anyway I go annoyed and unloaded the linux emulator from the kernel
when it was running... that killed it =).. surely it shouldn't have
let me do that, which surprisingly crashed my 3.0-970209-SNAP system)

Steve.