Second Life WebKit Fail / Error – Problem Again

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Update 2010-09-15: From one of the Snowstorm office hours meetings comes word that some releases of the viewers are not registering the Webkit, Quicktime, Flash, and other DLL’s correctly.I don’t have a fix.

This problem is popping up again. My previous post is here: Second Life Media Plugin Webkit Fail – The comments there have more suggestions and fixes.

Jesica Brown found a new solution I had not heard. Find the slplugin in the SL Viewer folder and right-click it, then set it to Win95 compatibility mode. Thanks.

Threads on the SL Forum are:

Media_plugin_webkit failure – Error with media_plugin_webkit – TV’S PLUGIN

Update 2010-07-29 – There is a JIRA: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-17087

Windows 7 – 64 bit seems to be having additional problems with this issue. Currently there seems to be no fix. Vote at the JIRA.

Please leave comments in the original post.

Second Life Search

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Linden Lab (LL) has fixed Second Life Search… well somewhat. Getting listed in search took time and some regions would never make it into the listings and others already in would fall out. Also, search has changed how it works or may be more accurately said, how it ranks the results. Those changes are important to merchants and shop owners.

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Second Life 2.1 Viewer Shadows & Projectors

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SL 2.1 Shadow Controls
SL 2.1 Shadow Controls

I had to do some searching to find out how to turn shadows on in the current SL Beta 2.1 viewers. The former instructions found on New World Notes, or Gwyneth Llewelyn’s SL 2.0 Beta still running too slowly on your Mac? No worries! are a bit out of date. It is easier now.

Juicy Bomb’s Second Life 2.0 Shadows instructions are good… plus all the cute clothes are fun.

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Kirsten Viewer Install Tips

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Kirsten Viewer
KirstenLee Viewer Shadows (29)

Kirsten’s viewer is a rapidly changing and is a bleeding edge viewer. Things that worked well in a previous version may not work in the latest version. Also, the default install process sometimes works well and sometimes it does not work so well. So, knowing the tricks and gotcha’s is essential for those using Kirsten’s Viewer.

Niran put up a post on Kirsten’s forum with a load of tips and tricks. Niran´s Guide for Kirstenviewer

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Kirsten Viewer S20 (29) Released

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Kirsten released a new viewer version today… well yesterday now that I’ve been playing with it for hours. I’m always eager to see Kirsten and Emerald releases. Mac users can use this release too.

New World Notes has a machinima video up showing a unique use of Kirsten’s shadows, Playing With Kirsten’s Second Life Shadows It is one of the really neat displays of shadow use, shown below. See NWN for details on the machinima.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCGr2X1GFLk]

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