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6.4. Plugins

Currently, Konqueror supports Netscape 4.x plugins.

When KDE starts up, it looks in the following directories for .so files containing plugin code.

/usr/local/netscape/plugins
/opt/netscape/plugins
/opt/netscape/communicator/plugins
/usr/lib/netscape/plugins
$HOME/.netscape/plugins
$MOZILLA_HOME/plugins
$NPX_PLUGIN_PATH

It examines every plugin to find out which MIME types the plugin supports. It then creates MIME type definitions for KDE in the user's

   ~/.kde/share/mimelnk

directory to make other applications aware of the new mime types.

The result is that when you LMK click on a file with a mime type supported by one of your Netscape plugins Konqueror should display it correctly.

You can install new Netscape plugins such as Macromedia Flash in the directories mentioned above.