+show tiles in firefox

README.md

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 # Information
 
-#
-### testing images using old Firefox
-
--   get [Firefox
-    1.5.0.9](https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/1.5.0.9/win32/en-GB/)
-    and install it in Wine
--   copy NPLS32.DLL into plugins folder
--   run Firefox and open [test
-    image](https://entropymine.com/samples/cod/fox.cod)
 
 ## Coordinate format
 

_posts/2024-04-19-viewing-tiles-with-firefox.markdown

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+---
+title: Viewing tiles with Firefox
+---
+
+Knowing the offsets of (potential) tiles, we can pick one (56057877)
+and extract the tile into a file:
+
+```sh
+./src/mp.py -c extract -o img/tile_56057878.cod --offset 56057877 dsatnord.mp
+```
+
+Then we get [Firefox
+1.5.0.9](https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/1.5.0.9/win32/en-GB/)
+and install it using (the 32 Bit version of) Wine. From
+[sunset.se](ftp://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/windows/winsock-indstate/Windows95/WWW-Browsers/Plug-In/)
+we can download
+[ls26.txt](ftp://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/windows/winsock-indstate/Windows95/WWW-Browsers/Plug-In/ls26.txt)
+and
+[ls26.exe](ftp://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/windows/winsock-indstate/Windows95/WWW-Browsers/Plug-In/ls26.txt)
+and run the latter with Wine. This results in a couple of files of
+which only `NPLS32.DLL` is relevant for us. As described in
+`ls26.txt`, we "Simply place this file in the plug-ins directory of
+[our] 32-bit Netscape." For Firefox running in Wine this is
+`~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/plugins/`.
+
+Now we can run Firefox using Wine and open a [test
+image](https://entropymine.com/samples/cod/fox.cod). It should show
+two white foxes. Opening the extracted tile should show a proper DSat
+satelite image as follows:
+
+![](/img/screenshot_firefox_plugin.png)
+
+It works! :-)