Well that's what happens when you use an inferior operating system. Just kidding, of course. That's the one thing that made me switch back to Windows, Key applications I needed just weren't there. I wish the problem would get better, but I just don't see it happening.

And has problems with playing sound (see bug 58339 in Bugzilla), although that bug might be easily fixed by Macromedia people (it seems like a one-liner fix is needed, but on closed source software :( ).

Anybody knows how to speak to Macromedia so that they listen?

If yes, here are URL's worth a visit: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/contact/wishlist/ http://www.macromedia.com/support/forums/team_macromedia/ http://www.macromedia.com/support/players/ http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/linux_player_readme.htm http://webforums.macromedia.com/macromediaplayers/categories.cfm?catid=184 http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Linux&P3_Brow ser_Version=Netscape4

Same with me! It does not react to any click.

Interesting that you mention it but in the last few builds i downloaded of 1.1a+ (currently running the July 9 build) it broke some of my plugins as well.

Java and flash work fine... Crossover stopped working, and so did PDF files.

I hope it works again in 1.1b whenever that comes out

About:plugins shows the correct version of flash, but when I visit the page I get the following in the JS console : Error: flashnav.SetVariable is not a function Source File: http://www.ford.de/firefly/spg/spg.asp?SessionID={82D93C9B-D351-4563-A5DD-9A7AF4E88FBB}&page=flash_nav&PageID=&NavID=home&SiteVerID=2&LangID=31 Line: 205

I see no difference with the new plug-in installed. IE does the same thing as Mozilla on this page, it's just a bar but none of the button do anything significant. IE is giving a javascript error so I'm highly inclined to believe that this page has issues.

make sure flashplayer.xpt is in the plugins dir or the components dir.

I don't think there is a great deal of security, but there are fewer XPCOM-enabled plugins. Windows comes with a great many ActiveX/OLE controls, some of which have had security holes and some of which are not really intended for use in Web pages (but can be...).

It is entirely possible that a plugin such as Flash or Quicktime could include a security flaw which might be exploitable via the XPCOM / Javascript plugin communication mechanisms (or by some other mechanism such as passing invalid parameters to the embed tag). However, Mozilla won't have the same variety of available controls to abuse.

So in summary, Mozilla's system may be less secure in principle (no code signing, no control over plugin scripting), but in practice there is a much smaller risk.

(And of course, it is no less secure than Netscape 4's system. I don't recall any Netscape 4 security issues related to Javascript control of common plug-ins).

--sam

By default, no javascript code loaded remotely can instantiate XPCOM components without the user's permission. It is true, though, that once the user has granted permission the component pretty much has carte blanche to do whatever it wants to the users system.

XPCOM and Microsoft COM are both implementations of COM (the Component Object Model). ActiveX is a particular technology implemented *using* MSCOM.

Go to the PluginDoc page on mozdev.org. There it explains how to get the Windows Media Plugin to install. I believe all you have to do is copy a couple of DLL's from Windows Media Player's directory to the Mozilla plugin directory.

I listen to my college radio station (streaming audio with Windows Media Player) all the time with Mozilla and it works.

No, it simply means that the flash/quicktime can now interact with the page which hosts it.

blocking ad servers has become a religion for me since i started using mozilla. still, the flash ads slip through. the best solution i've found is to RENAME the plugin rather than deleting it, so you don't have to download the thing for the odd flash animation you want to see. I also wrote a GUI tool to handle this. it's called jTFlashManager and it's free for the taking with source code on http://www.jtedley.com. One caveat -- it runs on Java and was compiled with 1.3. so, until someone writes a plugin....

jtedley

If I did not want to use the Flash plugin then I would uninstall it.

And of course that was in response to the request to toggle flash. If it's scriptable, it should be possible to call the stop play method.

How did you install mozilla?

When I installed Quicktime 6 it detected Nav4.79, Mozilla 1.0, and my mozilla nightly. If you just unzip your mozilla build it might not have the proper regirtry entries (Assuming you're on windows)

What Mac OS version are you running. On Mac OS X the plugins are all installed in the Internet plugins folder in the Library folder were they are all advailable for any browser you select and uses plugins to use.

I suspect you are using a pre-OS X OS version. If you have Netscape 6 or 7(beta) installed run the installer and copy the plugin over from Netscape 6 or & (beta) to Mozilla's plugin folder. It should work. I hope this helps.

Did you download the English version? If you chose any other language than English when downloading you still get version 5. (That's what happened to me when chosing German)

I second your request.

It would be nice to be able to modify some of the preferences without going to preferences or by moving files. Opera browser preferences can be modified by pressing "F12", and I use this frequently to avoid many annoying sites. A simillar function in Mozilla would be great.