Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-05-02 Thread Mike Fontenot
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like outdated advice to me ... in the early days of Mozilla I think you had to set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME, but you don't need to now. OK, but is the need to patch up Mozilla with jre.xpi also obsolete? Other articles (re: both potato woody) seem to say

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-05-02 Thread DvB
Mike Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like outdated advice to me ... in the early days of Mozilla I think you had to set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME, but you don't need to now. OK, but is the need to patch up Mozilla with jre.xpi also obsolete?

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-05-02 Thread Mike Fontenot
Actually, the more I look at the advice to patch up mozilla so that it can handle java applets, the less I understand the advice: unzip jre.xpi -d $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/plugins 'jre-image-i386/*' ln -s jre-image-i386/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so . I don't have unzip on my potato

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-05-02 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 02 May 2002 13:45:18 -0600 Mike Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the more I look at the advice to patch up mozilla so that it can handle java applets, the less I understand the advice: unzip jre.xpi -d $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/plugins 'jre-image-i386/*' ln -s

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-05-02 Thread DvB
Mike Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, the more I look at the advice to patch up mozilla so that it can handle java applets, the less I understand the advice: unzip jre.xpi -d $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/plugins 'jre-image-i386/*' ln -s

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-05-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, May 2, Mike Fontenot did write: Actually, the more I look at the advice to patch up mozilla so that it can handle java applets, the less I understand the advice: unzip jre.xpi -d $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/plugins 'jre-image-i386/*' ln -s

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-05-01 Thread W. Paul Mills
No, I don't have any issues with it. But it CAN cause problems in some cases. Sorry, I do not remember the exact details, and was most likely due to version differences. So if one is having problems, it is worth checking out. Paul P.S. I no longer use Netscape, all that extra garbage they like

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-05-01 Thread Mike Fontenot
Jamin W. Collins wrote: The above items are simply environment variables. They are created when Mozilla is started. They are not permanent. The fact that they aren't there after a reboot is quite normal, they shouldn't be. What problem are you experiencing or more specifically, what are

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:20:16PM -0600, Mike Fontenot wrote: I was trying to follow some advice I got from this newsgroup, to patch up mozilla so that it would be able to handle java applets. The advice was to download jre.xpi, and then to execute the commands: unzip jre.xpi -d

Getting mozilla going...

2002-04-30 Thread Mike Fontenot
I just installed mozilla from potato. When I first executed it (from my non-root login), it appeared to be setting MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to /usr/lib/mozilla (as well as setting various other environmental variables). But, even after a reboot, that variable isn't set, either under my non-root login,

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-04-30 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:42:25 -0600 Mike Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed mozilla from potato. When I first executed it (from my non-root login), it appeared to be setting MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to /usr/lib/mozilla (as well as setting various other environmental variables).

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-04-30 Thread DvB
Jamin W. Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:42:25 -0600 Mike Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed mozilla from potato. When I first executed it (from my non-root login), it appeared to be setting MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to /usr/lib/mozilla (as well as

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-04-30 Thread W. Paul Mills
Reboot! This is Linux, never reboot, except to install new kernel. ;-) Mozilla runs from a shell script. The variouse variables are set by the script so mozilla can find all its parts. Only programs run by the script will see those variables. They go away when terminated. Old netscape

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-04-30 Thread craigw
On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 06:16:44PM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: Old netscape directories including ~your_home/.netscape/ can cause havoc with mozilla. Also make sure you start What! That seems like an odd thing to say. Am I the only one whose got both Mozilla Netscape on the same machine?