June 19, 2003

Java plugin for Firebird /Internet Explorer

For the past couple of days, every time I've loaded up Firebird I've been getting the error "Java Plug-in for Netscape Navigator should not be used in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Please use Java Plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer instead". Realised today it was because I had downloaded the User Agent Switcher and I had left it in the Internet Explorer Settings. Set it back to the default (Mozilla) settings and everything worked great again.

Posted by Andy at June 19, 2003 9:07 AM
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I'd really like a UA switcher that makes it obvious that you're switched (change all the toolbar icons to a devil while you're set to IE, stick a giant flashing ad in the toolbar while you're set to Opera, something like that), to avoid the even worse outcome of sending someone a bug report based on your switching. Couple of times now I've forgotten, told someone they were broken, only to find out that it's because I was lying to them about my support for things like document.all. Oops.

Posted by: Phil Ringnalda at June 19, 2003 4:34 PM

Did you find a solution to this? I have the same problem.

Posted by: David at August 10, 2003 11:53 AM

I can't get the java plugin to work in Firebird. I install it, but when I try to run a page with an applet, it still says i need the plugin. any ideas?

Posted by: brendoman at August 27, 2003 5:48 PM

Have you restarted your browser? Make sure you haven't changed your useragent, and its still on the default one....
other than that I don't know.

Posted by: Me at August 27, 2003 6:05 PM

Read this page: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/phoenixwin.html

As an aside... I can't believe this blog comes up second when you search for "firebird java plugin" on Google. Stop abusing the Google page rankings.

*email changed by andy as link led to a porn site*

Posted by: Doug at September 27, 2003 8:58 PM

thanks for the interesting link - that may be of use to some people, but irrelevant to my problem. I have not abused Googles system - they index content on web pages. I write content on web pages. I can't help it if my content matches your query!

Posted by: Me at September 28, 2003 4:41 PM

This is no "abuse" of Google. I had the exact same question, and this thread gave me the solution. That's exactly how it should work :)

Posted by: Charles at September 29, 2003 6:36 PM

I also do not believe it is an abuse of Google. I too had that same exact question.

Posted by: Mick at October 1, 2003 1:50 PM

In the pref.js file (C:\..\document&settin..\mozilla\profiles\default\prefs.js)
remove the line which says

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");

and the error will go away.
Regards,
Grims.

Posted by: grims at October 28, 2003 10:46 PM

Thank you! I've been wondering how to fix this problem for over 2 freakin' months!

Posted by: Jeff at April 8, 2004 4:49 AM