Missing plug in

[tony draper]

Just been visiting a neighbor ,his son is studying for exams and has some Chemistry course on disks,they run alright on firefox text and stillswise but none of the video clips will play,it comes up with the message 'plugin missing' when we click on find plug in it does its thing then comes up with the message 'no plug in found'
Any idea of what plugin might be,he is running xp pro?
:confused:
downloaded and installed Flashplayer

[Milo Minderbinder]

Any idea what the plugin is supposed to do?
If its just video of some kind, just install the K-lite codec pack
Install the full pack from Free-Codecs.com : Download K-Lite Codec Pack 8.7.0 FULL, K-Lite Codec Pack 8.7.0 STANDARD, K-Lite Codec Pack 8.7.0 BASIC : K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools (http://www.free-codecs.com/K_Lite_Codec_Pack_download.htm)

That should cover most bases. Make sure you have the Adobe Reader (or other PDF reader installed - eg Foxit)
However there are a number of dedicated chemical plugins
EG
Chembase search Chembase Mozilla Search Plugin - Chembase - Chemical Compounds Database (http://www.chembase.com/mozillasearchplugin.htm)
Chemdraw for Connect ChemDraw Plug-ins Page (http://www.mhhe.com/sem/chemdraw/)
CS Chemdraw PerkinElmer Informatics Support Home – Desktop Support – Documentation – ChemDraw (http://www.cambridgesoft.com/services/DesktopSupport/Documentation/ChemDrawPlugin/)

There are others as well but its a long long time since I had to use them and I'm not sure just what else is out there
If you can advice more on the publisher of the disks I may be able to track it down

[tony draper]

They just seem to be clips of a chaps standing at a bench demonstrating various chemical reactions spoken of in the text,I have phoned him and told him to download real player,I had forgotten about real player.
Thanks for the help I will give him those links tomorrow.
PS the disks run fine on his mums laptop which is a older machine than his,though she may be using internet explorer,

[mustpost]

:8 I use a lot of codecs - never found that site before - thanks Milo :ok:

[Milo Minderbinder]

Tony

In that case it may well be the Adobe Shockwave player he needs. Thats used a lot in instructional videos
Get them to install Flash and Shockwave
https://www.adobe.com/go/EN_US-H-GET-FLASH
https://www.adobe.com/go/EN_US-H-GET-SHOCKWAVE
Download these from within Firefox as Adobe have different version for FF and IE, and the version you get depends on the browser you use to download

DON'T install Realplayer and Flash on the same machine - they don't work well together. The video download option which Realplayer installs makes the Flash player unstable

[Slasher]

Milo just on the subject - my Firefox 3.6 keeps telling me my
Java plugin has a "dangerous security flaw"......and promptly
uninstalls it without any choice as to whether I'll accept the
flaw or not. This means on the next browser restart I have to
keep reinstalling it again. I've googled around and apparently
the flaw is minor.

Would you have any suggestions to stop the damn thing from
booting the plugin?

PS - BTW I've noticed you usually pass on some bloody good
advice in this forum. Thanks! :ok:

[txdmy1]

upgrade FF I'm on v12 Slash, 3.6 is years out of date

[green granite]

And full of security holes.

[vulcanised]

I'm on FF 3.5.1

What, me worry?

[Milo Minderbinder]

Install the latest version of Firefox and then the latest version of Jave

it would be worth uninstalling ALL old versions of Java on the machine. Its not generally realised that until recently installing a new version of Java did not remove older versions of the virtual machine - and rogue scripts could find and access this in the background and run "behind the scenes"

Its worth realising that at the moment theres more new malware appearing which attacks Java, Flash and the Adobe Reader than there is for Windows

[Slasher]

it would be worth uninstalling ALL old versions of Java on the machine.

Milo its a really dumb question I know but... how do I do that
without stuffing my system up? I run WXP SP2 on a laptop.

I'll stick with FF3.6 just for the time being, but your advice is
noted.

PS - I would've PM'd but thought others will probably want to
know how to do it right too.

[Milo Minderbinder]

from add-remove programs in control panel
Uninstall ANYTHING with Java in the name (as the naming system varied with older versions)

[Slasher]

Ok thanks mate.