O9.50-1823(.6) and plugins (General comments)

1. nppdf.so:
   
   Seems to work  w/ Opera, although why anyone would  want to use it,
   is beyond me.  It's a memory  and CPU hog. Problem w/ opening a new
   link on  a nppdf.so displayed PDF.  When you go back  -- to display
   the pdf file -- I'm unabled  to get the pdf to display, no problems
   w/ Firefox. acroread 8.1.2. See first sentence.


2. libflashplayer.so:

   a)   Flash  (9.0.115  doesn't   work  if   flash  is   loaded  from
   /opt/netscape/plugins/   Gentoo's   default   location   to   store
   Flash. Nothing happens, just a screen saying loading. Test site was
   http://www.reuters.com/news/video

   b)  Added   a  directory  which  had   a  soft  line   (ln  -s)  to
   /opt/netscape/plugins  and  tried  again.   This time  the  wrapper
   seg-faulted.  Since  nobody else is seeing this  problem, I suspect
   it's a timing issue in Flash -- my computer is too slow (400MHz) to
   run  Flash  9.0 115,  so  they tell  me  by  generating an  illegal
   instruction.

   c) It  'appears' that Gentoo users  of Opera and  Flash 'might' see
   2a).  Opera would be smart to remove or ban an directory paths that
   contains the  word 'netscape'. Put another way,  maybe Opera should
   not include  the path /opt/netscape/plugins in  it's default plugin
   directory search path.


   ~% cat /usr/share/opera/ini/pluginpath.ini | grep "/netscape/"
   /opt/netscape/plugins=1
   /usr/lib/netscape/plugins=1
   /usr/local/netscape/plugins=1
   /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins=1
   ~% 

3. nphelix.so:
   BBC videos don't work, but the radios do.

4. gxineplugin.so:
   
   Kinda works. The backend is very slow and limited.

5. mplayerplug-in.so:
   
   Broken. Bug-report previously generated.

6. gecko-mediaplaye:
   
   Works   at   most  sites.   I   have   prolems  w/   www.stage6.com
   videos. Bug-report previously generated.
   
7. vlcplugin:

   Not worth bothering with.

8. totem:
   
   See comment 7.

9. KDE plugins:
   
   Your kidding, right!

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"Robt. W. Fletcher Jr" <me@wa.us> writes:


> 4. gxineplugin.so:
>    
>    Kinda works. The backend is very slow and limited.

Correction:  has the  same problem  as mplayerplug-in  on some  of the
links (bad window values from Opera) at

http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.html

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Bug report submitted - bug-315554

Not  really a  bug --  just a  means of  giving feedback  on GNU/Linux
plugins in 1823-(.6).

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"Robt. W. Fletcher Jr" <me@wa.us> writes:

> 1. nppdf.so:
>    
>    Seems to work  w/ Opera, although why anyone would  want to use it,
>    is beyond me.  It's a memory  and CPU hog. Problem w/ opening a new
>    link on  a nppdf.so displayed PDF.  When you go back  -- to display
>    the pdf file -- I'm unabled  to get the pdf to display, no problems
>    w/ Firefox. acroread 8.1.2. See first sentence.

I don't see the above issue/problem w/ O9.50-1887(.6)


> 2. libflashplayer.so:
>
>    a)   Flash  (9.0.115  doesn't   work  if   flash  is   loaded  from
>    /opt/netscape/plugins/   Gentoo's   default   location   to   store
>    Flash. Nothing happens, just a screen saying loading. Test site was
>    http://www.reuters.com/news/video
>
>    b)  Added   a  directory  which  had   a  soft  line   (ln  -s)  to
>    /opt/netscape/plugins  and  tried  again.   This time  the  wrapper
>    seg-faulted.  Since  nobody else is seeing this  problem, I suspect
>    it's a timing issue in Flash -- my computer is too slow (400MHz) to
>    run  Flash  9.0 115,  so  they tell  me  by  generating an  illegal
>    instruction.
>
>    c) It  'appears' that Gentoo users  of Opera and  Flash 'might' see
>    2a).  Opera would be smart to remove or ban an directory paths that
>    contains the  word 'netscape'. Put another way,  maybe Opera should
>    not include  the path /opt/netscape/plugins in  it's default plugin
>    directory search path.
>
>
>    ~% cat /usr/share/opera/ini/pluginpath.ini | grep
"/netscape/"
>    /opt/netscape/plugins=1
>    /usr/lib/netscape/plugins=1
>    /usr/local/netscape/plugins=1
>    /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins=1
>    ~% 

Both of the above issues/problems are still present in 1887.
>
> 3. nphelix.so:
>    BBC videos don't work, but the radios do.

The bbc videos 'seem' to work a 'little' better w/ 1887(.6)


>
> 4. gxineplugin.so:
>    
>    Kinda works. The backend is very slow and limited.

I removed gxine from my system -- I'll let somebody test it.

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