How-to install Rebol Plugin on Mozilla Firefox !!!
[1/15] from: jasonic:nomadics at: 26-Aug-2004 21:30
I am very happy to say just found instructions how to install Rebol plugin
for lovely new Firefox browser....
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
By default if you are using Firefox and go the Rebol plugin page at
http://www.rebol.com/news4301.html
and click the demos link
http://www.rebol.net/plugin/demos/
it says 'Rebol Plugin is only available for Internet Explorer' :-((
FIREFOX REBOL PLUG-IN INSTRUCTIONS
1. Install Active-X Firefox extension
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm#download
Select pre-compiled for Mozilla 1.7 and its javascript "click here" link.
The note reads "Does not work in Firefox 0.9 / 0.9.1 ".
I am using Firefox 0.93 and it installed perfectly
2. Close all Firefox windows and then restart Firefox
3. Now return to Rebol Plugin Demos page
http://www.rebol.net/plugin/demos/
Voila! Have fun
I hope these instructions will be added to the Rebol.com website.
And also a nice all-in-one package should be Submitted to the Firefox
Extensions catalog at
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/
Merci beaucoup to those smart Rebol francophones for this info
http://www.codeur.org/forum/message.php?sujet=2338&theme=17
'shadwolf' posted the solution there just 4 days ago
-- Jason
[2/15] from: alanore:comcast at: 26-Aug-2004 19:13
At 06:30 PM 8/26/2004, you wrote:
[3/15] from: carl::cybercraft::co::nz at: 27-Aug-2004 17:40
Works for me too. Very nice!
-- Carl Read
[4/15] from: carl::cybercraft::co::nz at: 27-Aug-2004 21:13
I've noticed one slight difference between them. In IE you don't need to use the full
path to the script as launchURL's value - just the script name will do if it's in the
same directory as the webpage. In Firefox however, the full path's required.
Anyone any idea what's at fault here - who this should be reported to?
-- Carl Read
[5/15] from: charles::mougel::spinodo::com at: 27-Aug-2004 23:30
Jason Cunliffe wrote:
>Merci beaucoup to those smart Rebol francophones for this info
>http://www.codeur.org/forum/message.php?sujet=2338&theme=17
>
>'shadwolf' posted the solution there just 4 days ago
>
Shadwolf just wants to say:
Original article on www.rebolfrance.org is not quoted :-(
url: http://www.rebolfrance.org/articles/firefox/rebol-firefox.html
Charles.
[6/15] from: moliad::aei::ca at: 27-Aug-2004 20:18
This all sounds cool, but it does not work for me.
THere is no official version for firefox on the page and when I try to install a version
I have no idea which one it should be!
and no "click me" button in the page starts any download or install...
can people tell me which one version they used and how they actually got it to install
?
-MAx
Charles MOUGEL wrote:
[7/15] from: jasonic::nomadics::org at: 27-Aug-2004 20:27
> This all sounds cool, but it does not work for me.
>
> THere is no official version for firefox on the page and when I try to
install a version I have no idea which one it should be!
> and no "click me" button in the page starts any download or install...
>
> can people tell me which one version they used and how they actually got
it to install ?
Hi Max
I wrote:
FIREFOX REBOL PLUG-IN INSTRUCTIONS
1. Install Active-X Firefox extension
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm#download
Select pre-compiled for Mozilla 1.7 and its javascript "click here" link.
The note reads "Does not work in Firefox 0.9 / 0.9.1 ".
I am using Firefox 0.93 and it installed perfectly
hmm...Did you try that?
What versoin of Firefox are you using?
Jason
[8/15] from: jasonic:nomadics at: 27-Aug-2004 20:32
> Shadwolf just wants to say:
> "Original article on www.rebolfrance.org is not quoted :-("
> url: http://www.rebolfrance.org/articles/firefox/rebol-firefox.html
Thank you Charles,
Sorry I misssed the rebolfrance link because the site was down recently and
had googled firefox directly to codeurs.fr
http://rebol.com will be updating their page instructions soon also
- Jason
[9/15] from: carl::cybercraft::co::nz at: 28-Aug-2004 12:38
>This all sounds cool, but it does not work for me.
>
>THere is no official version for firefox on the page and when I try to install
>a version I have no idea which one it should be!
>
>and no "click me" button in the page starts any download or install...
>
>can people tell me which one version they used and how they actually got it to
>install ?
First, I installed the latest Firefox just to be sure I was using the same one as Jason.
(Ie, 0.93, though it's possible 0.92 would work.)
Then I went to...
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm#download
where you'll find a table of text and links under a heading saying: "Download the precompiled
Plug-in". The link to use is the "Click here" one in the first row of the table, the
row labeled:
Mozilla 1.7
Does not work in Firefox 0.9 / 0.9.1
Note it's a JavaScript link, so you need to have JavaScript turned on for it to work.
(And hence why we can't just give you the link. Grrr!:)
It installs automatically if I remember correctly, so after that you should only need
to restart Firefox to get things working.
If it still doesn't work, try uninstalling the plugin - instructions here...
http://www.rebol.net/plugin/tests/plugin-guide.html#section-7
then go to the test page here...
http://www.rebol.net/plugin/tests/test.html
and see what happens. Older versions of the plugin are supposed to automatically update,
but I had problems with one that wouldn't. I think the problem was the URL path one
I mentioned in a previous post though, meaning that was why it didn't seem to be working
- not because the plugin wouldn't update.
Best of luck!
-- Carl Read
[10/15] from: jasonic:nomadics at: 27-Aug-2004 20:47
> It installs automatically if I remember correctly, so after that you
should only need to restart Firefox to get things working.
Yes make sure you close down all instances of Firefox. Then relaunch Forefox
before returning to the rebol plugin test page
http://www.rebol.net/plugin/tests/test.html
-- Jason
[11/15] from: jasonic:nomadics at: 27-Aug-2004 20:53
Salut
Charles wrote:
> Shadwolf just wants to say:
> "Original article on www.rebolfrance.org is not quoted :-("
> url: http://www.rebolfrance.org/articles/firefox/rebol-firefox.html
oops...
you need to correct the rebolfrance.org pages
http://www.rebolfrance.org/articles/firefox/rebol-firefox.html
http://www.rebolfrance.org/articles/firefox/rebol-firefox-en.html
The link in your instruction there is wrong
http://www.rebol.net/plugin/test/test.html
should be
http://www.rebol.net/plugin/tests/test.html <<< [..tests..]
and also mention rebloug works ok with Firefox 0.93
thanks
--Jason
[12/15] from: jasonic:nomadics at: 27-Aug-2004 20:55
Please can someone test to see if this Actrive-X rebol plug-in trick also
works on MacOSX ??
thanks
Jason
[13/15] from: pwawood:mango:my at: 28-Aug-2004 9:12
Very droll Jason
On Saturday, Aug 28, 2004, at 08:55 Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, Jason Cunliffe
wrote:
[14/15] from: carloslorenz::rebolbrasil::nobrenet::com at: 28-Aug-2004 0:01
Hi
Is this plugin working with Mozilla FireFox under Linux or not?
Carlos
[15/15] from: moliad::aei::ca at: 2-Sep-2004 1:54
Charles MOUGEL wrote:
> Jason Cunliffe wrote:
>
you should also put a note on the page, to remember to set the option to allow firefox
to allow software installs, with a small screen grab of the options page to do it...
cause although java and javascript are enabled, it would not download the activeX plugin...
it does not tell you anything, so you think that the link is bad or broken...
-MAx