From: Earle Martin Date: 11:34 on 20 Aug 2003 Subject: Bloody Mozilla! I just tried to install the Java plugin for Mozilla. Clicking the "download plugin" button in the dialogue box that appeared to tell me I didn't have the plugin, I was taken to <http://wp.netscape.com/plugins/jvm.html>;. Rather than providing simple links to download the installers, this page uses form buttons with some shitty JavaScript. That didn't work when I tried it. So I viewed the page's source, which told me I needed to get <ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2.2/unix/linux22/plugins/jre131_02.xpi>;. After a long time a dialogue box finally appeared and asked me if I wanted to install, yadda yadda yadda. I said I did. It sat around for a while and eventually told me permission was denied to install. So I tried again as root, and it said "Installation successful". Wrong! Running Mozilla showed no sign of the plugin at all. Running it from the command line said the Java plugin couldn't be initialized because it was missing a shared object file. Thanks to packages.debian.org, I managed to locate and install an obsolete package called libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1, which is something to do with an old compiler. As if I needed, or wanted, to know that. And as if that wasn't bad enough, running Mozilla again I notice that - all my bookmarks have been deleted! Fucking HEAP of CRAP.
From: Earle Martin Date: 12:04 on 20 Aug 2003 Subject: Re: Bloody Mozilla! On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:34:01AM +0100, Earle Martin wrote: > And as if that wasn't bad enough, running Mozilla again I notice that - all my > bookmarks have been deleted! Fucking HEAP of CRAP. More fun. If your bookmarks vanish, the Personal Toolbar Folder - where you put things you want to appear on your Personal Toolbar - vanishes as well. You have to create a new folder and designate one. But Mozilla won't let you create a new folder at the root of your bookmarks folder if it's empty, so first you need to make one useless bookmark. Then, in "Manage Bookmarks", select View -> Set folder as Personal Toolbar Folder. But it doesn't bloody work! The string "NC:PersonalToolbarFolder" appears in the location field for your selected folder, but vanishes if you restart Mozilla. So after a bit of Googling for that phrase I found this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/2/2003/05/3/59926 Which explained that you have to edit the bookmarks.html file BY HAND, and insert the aforementioned string into the tag designating your toolbar folder. What a load of bollocks.
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