Question About Mozilla Firefox and Geocoding Software (Vanity?)

RonPaulLives | 01/13/2005 | RonPaulLives

[RonPaulLives]

I am trying to eventually get everyone who works for my employer, a nonprofit group, to switch over from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox. I have been playing around with Firefox and like what I see.

Herein lies the problem: we have to use geocoding in Internet Explorer to map street addresses. How can I do that with Mozilla Firefox. When I try to map locations in Firefox, I get a message "JavaScript Application: You must install the NCompass Labs Plug-In to access the GIS software." I have done search engine searches and cannot find this said plugin. Can any of the computer experts on FR help me out? It would be a huge help.

[RonPaulLives]

Can any of you guys give me any advice? Or maybe PING someone who could? Thanks.

[thoughtomator]

Sounds like a custom piece of middleware that I'm guessing exists for IE only.

[dennisw]

I have question for any Linux gurus.

I have downloaded Linux v of FireFox and for the life of me cannot install it on my new Linux installations. I have Fedora core on one hard drive and mandrake 10.1 on another. Linux makes downloading and installing a pain in the butt. Windows is infinitely easier. Plus on Fedora I have download Invidia LAN ethernet drivers in order to connect to www.

[Izzy Dunne]

Look in your PLUGINS folder next to the IE application.

If you find one having to do with NSCompass, then COPY it (don' t just move it) Over to the FireFox Plugins folder and restart FireFox.

[TomGuy]

What is the GIS software you are using? Have you checked its website for a Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape plug-in?

NCompass Labs, per on google search, seems to have acquired by Microsoft. That could be the problem, since Firefox is giving MS IE a run.

NCompass doesn't seem to have a separate website.

[steveo]

Good News! Microsoft to Acquire NCompass Labs

Don't hold your breath on this one!

[TomGuy]

Also, some web-applications simply require MS IE. Firefox does have limitations and does not support some web-site features. So you have to run IE.

I find that with some java-heavy websites.

So, you may not have the option to run your particular program/software under Firefox.

[Petronski]

As others have pointed out, IE is simply the only choice for some websites. I see that in the mortgage biz all the time.

Any plug-in that works for Mozilla is a good candidate for trial with Firefox Beyond that, you might be outta luck.

[ShadowAce]

It looks like they were acquired by Microsoft in 2001.

[fso301]

You are skating on thin ice once your non-IE browser needs venture much beyond HTML, simple javascript and CSS.

[mrsmith]

http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm

"There have been previous plug-ins for Netscape Navigator/Communicator that host ActiveX controls but most such as the NCompass plug-in are defunct.

This is the first open source implementation and also one of the lightest and fastest as well because it uses ATL rather than MFC..."

Over my head, maybe this will help.

[ShadowAce]

I believe that Firefox comes with an installer (I'm going from memory here). Just do a chmod +x on it and run it with a "./firefox-installer" command.

If it does not have an installer, then just unpack it into a directory and it should run from there.

If you have any other questions, or this doesn't work for you, let me know, and I'll figure it out.

[dennisw]

I unpacked it. That's very easy. So FireFox is now in it's own folder. But I click on the installer icon and get nothing. I clicked on all six icons just to be sure, nothing. I have to use shell to install? And terminal is shell?

[dennisw]

Linux/GTK2
Extract the tarball and run the installer like so:

tar -xzvf firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz
cd firefox-installer
./firefox-installer

If you have Nautilus set up to run Executable Text Files you can just double click firefox-installer to run.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/#othersystems

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I would love to set up Nautilus to run executable files. Would make all linux downloads easier.

[ShadowAce]

Hmm. I'm not familiar with Nautilus as I don't use Gnome that much (I use KDE), so I can't help you there, other than to suggest using Google, or the Help system.

I gather from your last post that you got Firefox installed OK?

[tjblair]

i may be able to help you.
my first advice is for you to download firefox from mandrake's site for mandrake.
and download ff from fedora core for that machine.
you can email me at:
tjblair at yhaoo dot com

[dennisw]

That's great advice ..... give me some hours to report back.

[B4Ranch]

ping

[RonPaulLives]

What is the GIS software you are using? Have you checked its website for a Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape plug-in?

The software is NACCRRAware, a Web-based information management software designed to collect, report, and distribute information for nonprofit groups. They don't have a plug-in. We were warned that we "had to use Internet Explorer" but, being stubborn and not a fan of Explorer, was trying to do something different.