279646 - MDLI Chime Molecule Viewer Doesn't Work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(External Software Affecting Firefox :: Other, defect)

Description

[L. Van Warren]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; MathPlayer 2.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

www.mdli.com offers a free chemistry viewer that I have used for years to 
create my displays for organic chemistry and cancer research.

the only thing still holding me to Internet Explorer is this plug-in that 
allows Protein Data Bank files (.pdb, .mol) files to be read.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to my web site
2. plug-ins don't show molecules
3.

Actual Results:  
no molecules show up.

Expected Results:  
looked for the mdli chime plug-in in the internet explorer directory and used 
it to read and display the file.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>looked for the mdli chime plug-in in the internet explorer directory and used 
>it to read and display the file.

-> invalid

Internet Explorer 6 does use an ActiveX Plugin while all other browsers (on
Linux, Mac OS X and Windows) are using an NPAPI plugin. Internet Explorer5 and
before also use the NPAPI plugin...

Install an Plugin for Netscape/Mozilla/Opera [NPAPI] and it should work.

Reopen this bug report if you see the plugin in "about:plugins" (type it as URL)
and it still doesn't work.