Re: CDF browser plugin and Wolfram library archive
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- Subject: [mg118095] Re: CDF browser plugin and Wolfram library archive
- From: Syd Geraghty <sydgeraghty at me.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:57:24 -0400 (EDT)
Hi George, Although not quite as easy as you suggest: > Fortunately, the plug-in is easy to turn off in Safari. > > george I managed to find out how to do it on my Mac system (detailed below) with a little exploring. For others who have been following this thread the trick is: Locate the file "Mathematica.plugin" in the path " /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Mathematica.plugin" and remove it from the Internet Plug-Ins Directory. This also has the considerable merit that it works for all the browsers on my system (Safari, FireFox, Chrome). I now do not have to deal with the bizarre behavior of the CDF Player/Plug-in combo (I hope there are no strange consequences of removal of the Mathematica.plugin, I have seen none so far). One other hope is that WRI might make downloading Demonstrations source code for the Mathematica user a simpler process. The downloaded source notebook cannot be Saved or Saved As on my system. I have to copy from the downloaded source file and paste to a New Notebook several sets of expressions individually to get an Editable/Savable version which includes the citation and reference material for future attribution purposes. I thought one of the important benefits WRI advertises for the Demonstrations Project was pedagogic. As such the current process for getting source code for a demonstration to experiment with and use as a learning tool is far from easy. If anyone has a more streamlined way of accomplishing this I would be very glad to try it. Cheers .... Syd Syd Geraghty B.Sc, M.Sc. sydgeraghty at mac.com Mathematica 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (February 23, 2011) ReleaseID: 8.0.1.0 (2063982, 2063639) MacOS X V 10.6.7 Snow Leopard MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2GB RAM On Apr 11, 2011, at 4:07 AM, George Woodrow III wrote: > The performance of the plug-in in Safari is acceptable -- pretty good once the plug-in has loaded, actually. > > It is a matter of taste, but I find it useful when looking at demonstrations from the wolfram site. With previous versions, I would end up downloading promising files that turned out to be less than expected. > > For anything else, I usually just want to download the file. Fortunately, the plug-in is easy to turn off in Safari. > > george > > > On Apr 9, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Helen Read wrote: > >> On 4/9/2011 7:13 AM, George Woodrow III wrote: >>> >>> I agree that it is not user-friendly -- mostly a wast of time to load the file in the browser when all you want it to save it. >>> >>> george >> >> Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm so far not really seeing the point >> of the browser plug-in. It is extremely slow for the plug-in to start up >> and open a file in the browser, often to the point of hanging or even >> crashing Firefox. And I don't really get why I would ever want to open a >> .nb in the browser, when I have Mathematica installed. I'd like to >> download the file or open it directly in Mathematica. For people with >> the Player only, I can see opening up files in the browser plug-in, or I >> suppose if people start commonly embedding CDFs into a webpage (a la >> embedded Flash video), but other than that, I don't get it. >> >> I have set the .nb file action in Firefox back to the old behavior of >> opening the file in Mathematica on most of my computers. It's still set >> to open .nb files in the browser plug-in on our classroom computers, and >> I see the students getting annoyed when they forget to do a right-click >> Save Link As, and end up with the file opening up -- very slowly -- in >> Firefox. We might change the setting the next time we re-image the >> classrooms, but I fear it will sow confusion when students are working >> on their own laptops (which will by default open .nb's in the browser >> plug-in). >> >> >> -- >> Helen Read >> University of Vermont >> > >