Browser Plugins
[ IT support staff: Software from this website is not to be installed on Phoenix workstations without prior consultation. ]
Browser plugins add new functionality to your web browser . Some handle video, video and graphics files, others support interactive multimedia or 3D models. Most plugins work with (or are available for) Mozilla and Internet Explorer. The plugins below are the most popular and commonly required plugins for the internet.
When a plug-in installer refers to the "Netscape" family of browsers, or being "Netscape-compatible", this usually means Mozilla Firefox , Mozilla (1.x) , Mozilla Seamonkey , Opera , and derivations of these programs.
Note: These plugins are NOT supported by the IT Service Desk.
Apple QuickTime and iTunes QuickTime is a set of system components which lets your computer handle a wide range of multimedia types, including music, sound, graphic and video files from various platforms, streaming audio and video, VR scenes and objects, 3D objects and digital video. It also includes a plug-in for your web browser which lets you view multimedia inline.
With iTunes for Windows and Mac OS X, you can subscribe to DSO podcasts, manage, update and watch them, and sync to your iPod. Phoenix Desktop users should install iTunes from the Software Catalogue.
Apple QuickTime
QuickTime 7.3
Apple iTunes
iTunes 7.6
Flash, Shockwave and Authorware Shockwave and Flash Player deliver multimedia content, including audio, video, graphics and interactivity to your browser in very small download space, such as online videos, advertisements, games, interactive simulations and even simple navigation guides.
Adobe Flash and Shockwave
Flash Player 10.0
Shockwave 11.0
Java Java enables small applets or full-scale applications to be delivered through your web browser, and is required for access to Deakin Studies Online (DSO) and other web-based services at Deakin.
Sun Java
Sun JRE 1.5.0_05
Apple Java
VLC Media Player VLC Media Player is an open-source media player for many different file and media types. It can play DVDs, CDs, VCDs, MPEG-4, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC and many more. The Windows version installs a plug-in for your web browser to allow it to use VLC Media Player for playing online content.
VLC Media Player
VLC Media Player 0.8.6b
Microsoft Windows Media Player Firefox Plug-In This plugin is used for playing Windows Media Player video and audio files through the Firefox browser. It is commonly used in the Deakin Library's subscription to Informit Media .
Microsoft Windows Media Player Firefox Plug-In
Mozilla Firefox plugin for playing Windows Media files.
Download: Windows
Size: 1.0MB
Date: 22/07/2008
Chemscape Chime Chime is a plug-in for your web browser for displaying chemical graphics within web pages. It supports most of the popular structure display formats that scientists use including MDL Information Systems' Molfile and Rxnfile and many of the popular 3D display formats such as the Brookhaven Protein Databank (PDB) format (3D rendering and RasMol scripting code courtesy of Roger Sayle.)
Chemscape Chime
Chime Plug-in
Download: Windows
Version: 2.6
Size: 3.1MB
Date: 7/10/2002
Download: Mac OS 9
Version: 2.6
Size: 1.3MB
Date: 7/10/2002
Support: Chime Website
Autodesk DWF Viewer Autodesk's DWF Viewer is a free plug-in for Internet Explorer that allows it to display design content, such as building diagrams created from CAD applications.
Autodesk DWF Viewer
DWF Plug-in 7.0 (Internet Explorer ONLY)
