Thanks to all who answered. I found that the source of my confusion was to put the plugin in the /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/plugins directory instead of the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory. > I think mozilla shipped with shrike was not compiled with gcc 3.2, so you > need to create link to plugin from ns610 dir. > That's correct. I hope that ends the problems of my installation of Shrike. I've never had so many problems! All pretty minor but they did occupy 3 of my weekends! myriam