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Re: adding plugins to web browsers



On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 12:32:42PM -0500, Terry Shannon wrote:
> Do the standard plugins exist for the mozilla and other browsers that  
> are installed with Debian?
> 
> When I look for plugins on the mozilla site (or netscape) they only  
> seem to support the 386 architecture.  How do I get plugins to update  
> the installed browsers?  I've tried to search using aptitude, but I'm  
> not sure if these packages will be in the stable directories or other  
> directories.

Many binary only plugins are not available for linux/ppc.  The mplayer
plugin plays many formats (package mozilla-mplayer), and there are
flash plugins (libflash-mozplugin, swf-player).  Opening many tabs
with flash will be really slow, though.

> My installation of debian went very smoothly.  I booted off an iso  
> image I downloaded and burned and did the rest of the internet.  Took  
> me a long time to get my resolution to do something other than  
> 640X480.  I had to set default depth to 8 instead of 24.  Are there  
> any other solutions to this?

On my machine, enabling no resolutions at all in the configuration
(using dpkg-reconfigure) selects the maximum resolution available.
Try this with 24bpp.  Note: when asking for help, please provide more
detailed information (in this case, at least the machine type and the
X version).

Best,

Tamas



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