Remote panel plugin support for Firefox browser?

[Johnner]

I think I've been through all the relevant material on the NI site, but to no avail. I used to be able to make Remote Panels work with Mozilla by copying the NPLVWin32.dll into the Mozilla plugins directory. This doesn't seem to work with Firefox--at least, not with my Firefox.

I have XP, Firefox 1.0, and LabVIEW 7.1.1, and these tests are all on the machine that has LabVIEW installed, so the run-time engine is not the issue. The symptom is that I get "Click here to download plugin" when trying to load a page with an embedded panel no matter what things I do in the Firefox plugins folder.

Any ideas? I think that Firefox/Mozilla are closing in on 10% market penetration, with much higher rates in Europe, and I'm wondering if others have made this work. This experience has also made me want to know more about how browser plugins work (how the supporting library is selected and located by the browser, how the OBJECT and EMBED tags work, etc.), so good tips on explanatory nuggets are also appreciated.

Thanks,
John

[THailey3]

Hi John!

Like you said, I know that this trick works with Mozilla and that this same method does not work with Firefox. Let me see if I can explore this a bit more and I'll post back on this thread sometime soon.

Until then, take care...

Travis H.
National Instruments

[THailey3]

Hi John!

Sorry to get back to you so late. I just wanted to let you know that I spoke with the developers (I think you may know Phil?) on this. They said that there currently isn't support for Firefox with Remote Front Panels. Considering the gaining popularity of Firefox, however, I would think that this is something that will be addressed in the future!

Just thought I would let you know what I found...

Take care,
Travis H.
National Instruments

[Johnner]

Thanks for checking, Travis. Too bad there isn't anything yet. If it's the Phil I'm thinking of, then perhaps he's been spending too much time playing poker and too little time making a Firefox plugin for remote panels!

Take care,
John

[THailey3]

Hey John!

Hahaha... yep, it's that Phil 😛

Take care & good luck,
Travis H.

[hhk]

Hello!

SInce the last postings here are more than two years old:

Is there any improvement with respect to support the firefox browser for remote panel control,
i.e. is there some kind of plug-in or runtime engine  available now?
Henning 

[TCPlomp]

I have no issues using remote panels in Firefox (2.0) I believ 1.5 worked as well.

You only have to make sure you accept the ActiveX component

Ton

[Doug M]

This KnowledgeBase entry may be useful:

Missing Plugin Error Loading Remote Front Panel in Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, Internet Explorer, or ...

[hhk]

Thanks to all of you for your fast response!

In particular, the KnowledgeBase Entry  pointed out by  Doug  helped. 
I downloaded the  archive "Windows RFP Plugins.zip",
installed the correct version (in my case LV7.1) into the plugin directory of the firefox browser...
and it worked  immediately.


Henning