Is it possible somehow to install more than one version of the same plugin in Firefox?
I need a very specific old[ish] version of the Java plugin to run an Oracle applet, can I install this version *and* the latest version?
N.B. the applet *doesn't* work with the latest version of the Java plugin, it looks for jpi-version=1.4.2_16 specifically before it will even try and start. OK, this is stupid but I can't do anything about it.
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 16:00:06 Chris G wrote:
Is it possible somehow to install more than one version of the same plugin in Firefox?
Have you tried it?
R.
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:30:40PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 16:00:06 Chris G wrote:
Is it possible somehow to install more than one version of the same plugin in Firefox?
Have you tried it?
It's a bit difficult to try it as the plugins both have the same name so you can't put both of them in the plugins directory. The question is whether a plugin will work if you give it a differnet name I suppose.
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 16:56:17 Chris G wrote:
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:30:40PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 16:00:06 Chris G wrote:
Is it possible somehow to install more than one version of the same plugin in Firefox?
Have you tried it?
It's a bit difficult to try it as the plugins both have the same name so you can't put both of them in the plugins directory. The question is whether a plugin will work if you give it a differnet name I suppose.
So did you try that?
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Ten wrote:
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 16:56:17 Chris G wrote:
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:30:40PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 16:00:06 Chris G wrote:
Is it possible somehow to install more than one version of the same plugin in Firefox?
Have you tried it?
It's a bit difficult to try it as the plugins both have the same name so you can't put both of them in the plugins directory. The question is whether a plugin will work if you give it a differnet name I suppose.
So did you try that?
Failing that, and assuming you're root, you could create separate users for running Firefox with the two (or more) plugin versions, and put the plugin.so files in the per-user plugin directories. Then use super to run Firefox as the appropriate user, remembering to give Firefox an appropriate -a option to force it to start a new instance of Firefox, rather than open a new tab in an existing window.
(I use this trick with libgcj, to run untrusted Java applets as a special low-privileged user, and to have access to both Gnash and the proprietary Shockwave Flash player.)
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