David E. Ross wrote:
On 5/28/10 5:39 AM, Frog wrote:
I succeeded in making the move from 1.1.19 to 2.0.4, with a few small
problems. The one I am attempting to resolve at the present time has to
do with opening an Old Faithful page. Here is a summary of that
problem--I hope somebody can help me solve my problem.
I first go to:
http://www.nps.gov/archive/yell/oldfaithfulcam.htm
Once there, I next click "Old Faithful Geyser Live!" at the top of this
page.
On the next page, I click "Launch Old Faithful Geyser Live!—Video WebCam."
The next page has a yellow banner at the top with the following printed
in that banner:
Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page.
Install Missing Plugins
I then click:
Install Missing Plugins
On to the next page:
Plugin Finder Service
Available Plugin Downloads
Fhe following plugins are available:
(check in the box) Windows Media Player 11
Some plugins may require additional information from you during
installation.
Press Next to install these plugins.
Back Next
I clicked:
Next
I then get a new window as follows:
Plugin Finder Service
No plugins were installed.
Windows Media Player 11 Not Available Manual Install
Find out more about Plugins or manually find missing plugins.
Back Finish
Clicking Finish takes me back to where I once had the page with the
yellow banner at the top (now less the yellow banner).
Clicking Manual Install takes me to this address:
http://port25.technet.com/pages/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download.aspx
I manually downloaded the software and then moved to install this
software. Well, I was only given one option, and that was
repair...guess what, I clicked repair. It went through the process of
doing the repair--and I then returned to the Old Faithful web can. I
again got the yellow banner window.
Question: Is this one of the plugins that hasn't been rewritten for
SeaMonkey or am I doing something wrong again? Any words of advice/help
would be appreciated.
Frog
I believe you are a victim of invalid browser sniffing. I get the
yellow banner with SeaMonkey 2.0.4 and with spoofing Firefox 3.6.3. But
I don't get it with spoofing Internet Explorer 7.
See my<http://www.rossde.com/internet/sniffing.html> for suggestions on
how to deal with invalid browser sniffing and how to defeat it.
Note that the Web site in question indicates:
This webcam is out of service. A replacement camera has
been requested and will be installed as soon as it is possible to do so.
Please note, however, that it may function intermittently, but
uninterrupted service is impossible to maintain at this time.
Thanks for the help. After reading the message from MCBastos, I decided
to look at why 1.1.19 worked and 2.0.4 did not. I found the file
np-mswmp.dll was included in the SeaMonkey/Plugin folder for 1.1.19 and
that is was not included in the SeaMonkey/Plugin folder for 2.0.4. I
then copied the np-mswmp.dll file in 1.1.19 and pasted it to the 2.0.4
plugin folder. I can now access the Old Faithful page in 2.0.4 as I
have done in the past on 1.1.19. I do intend to explore the suggestion
to visit David Ross's web page in the next few days.
http://www.rossde.com/internet/sniffing.html
I want to understand internet sniffing and how it may be impacting on my
internet experience.
Thanks again for the help.
Frog
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