Wolfram CDF Plug-In for Pale Moon

[gmichalk]

Wolfram provides a plug-in for popular browsers that allows CDF (Computable Document Format) files to be displayed in browsers, including Firefox.

Unfortunately, PM does not support this plug-in.

This can best be illustrated by going to the following URL in Wolfram's blog site:

http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/04/12/expl ... ther-sort/

Scrolling through the blog file using Pale Moon you will see that several embedded cdf files do not display at all - unlike FF where the cdf's are displayed.

Not sure whether this is a Wolfram or Pale Moon problem (or both) but would sure appreciate if the issue was resolved.

Graham M

[lyceus]

Welcome to the forums!

As for your comments for this plugin, you should report this issue first to the makers of this plug-in. Often plugin makers just do a lazy job and just look for Firefox binaries and libraries. Instead for look for any compatible Mozilla Gecko app as they should do. Often several plugins even just look just for a "hardwired" user agent and fail if they don't find an official Firefox string, as example.

Please post here any comment from their side, so Moonchild can check if there are something to fix in this side too.

Thank you for your report!

Best regards,
Lobocursor

[Moonchild]

Plugin writers should use a "system" install for their plugins (which makes their plugin available to all compatible browsers) instead of installation in individual browsers. The "big players" like flash, silverlight and java do this, with the added advantage that there's good control over which plugin version is installed. Wolfram's devs should look into doing it this way (install it in its own location, then make the necessary registry entries) to work around "doesn't work in non-mainstream or re-branded browsers" problems.