[Q] browser plugin for MSIE 6 / Firebird

Fri Dec 5 10:40:37 UTC 2003

Great, thanks a lot!

I am now able to load projects with XP & MSIE 6 when the link refers directly to a .PR file. 
When the link is contained in a .html file between <html> tags including <embed type="application/x-squeak-source" src= etc > it still does not work though.
For Mozilla Firebird the opposite occurs (on WIN2000 MSIE5.5); starting the plugin with the embed tag works well, the link to .PR needs clearly more information (which image to use, etc).

Hans Baveco

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Rueger [mailto:michael at squeakland.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 6:09 PM
To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Subject: Re: [Q] browser plugin for MSIE 6 / Firebird

Andreas Raab wrote:

> Mike and I have been investigating the problem and it looks as if the
> installer doesn't register the plugin properly. We're still investigating

We found it and the reason seems to be: no good deed goes unpunished.
The problem only seems to occur if you
- deinstall and old version of the plugin
- while you have IE open.

This prevents the ActiveX control from being deleted and the installer 
doesn't register it again on the install.

Sounds complicated? Ask Andreas, who spend a while in figuring out all 
the combinations of wind direction and mouse positions causing this ;-)

I've uploaded a new installer that forces the ActiveX control to be 
installed everytime, this seems to fix the problem at least on our machines.

Michael