Re: [tlug] mozilla: really ready?

["simon" <simon@example.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Breen" <jwb@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [tlug] mozilla: really ready?


>
> My gripe is with plugins. When I try to use Mozilla with my Internet
> banking system, which is a Java app., it pops a window saying I need a
> Java plugin and gives me the option of downloading it. If I say Go, it
> downloads something then tells me the installation fails.
>
> The message is:
>
> "Java 2 Plug-in for Linux: Download was unsuccessful. Please try again.
> The Java Plug-in is 7.6Mb and will take you 37 minutes to fully download
> with a 28.8 modem or 19 minutes with a 56K modem. Alternatively, you can
> download this plug-in directly from our FTP site at
> ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2.2/windows/win32/plugins/jre131_02i.xpi
> for Windows. Please e-mail ftp-plugins@example.com if you continue to have
> problems.  Error encountered -- -202"

I think this is a permissions error.  I foolishly tested this by becoming root, visiting the page that needed the plug in and going
through the installation.  And this worked fine.

I'm using Moz 1.0 on windows (at work) and it is very much faster than 0.99 that I was using previously.