Re: Why wont the damn java plugin work!

From: John Cholewa (google_at_jc-news.com)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: 7 Jun 2004 07:22:44 -0700

wally <root@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message news:<zfQwc.9450$sS2.293586@news20.bellglobal.com>...
> vladimir@math.uic.edu wrote:
> I originally had the linux jdk and the java executable ran fine under linux
> compatablility, but the plugin gave me that same message so I figured that
> the linux java plugin .so file is incompatible with my os and compiled java
> natively. I like netscape because it looks sleek, and has the nice mail
> client, but i may move to firefox and thunderbird, i just dont like how
> middle click in firefox opens a new tab rather than new window, its a
> feature I enjoy greatly. I know mozilla supports that so I may just go back
> to the plain old mozilla. Its nice to have choices :D I like the sleek look
> of netscape though

Couldn't you just use the Netscape theme with Mozilla? I mean,
Netscape is basically just a rebranded Mozilla, and the only
differences are that it has a different theme and a few plugins
preinstalled. But if your problem is installing plugins, then the
whole benefit of Netscape over Mozilla goes down the drain.

You can make Mozilla look as sleek as you want to. And, yeah, it's
easy to change what the double-click-on-link does in the preferences.
And it's several tenths higher in revision than the version that
Netscape used 1.7 or 1.8a versus 1.4), so there are probably a few
extra features and bug/security fixes in there. 

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  -JC
  http://www.jc-news.com/coding/freedom/

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