Installing Firefox4 beta with working plugins

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Mon Jan 17 06:02:30 UTC 2011


On 17/01/2011 06:17, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 02:50 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:28:23 +0800, Jim Byrnes<jf_byrnes at comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I wanted to try out the Firefox4 beta.  I followed the instructions for
>>> installing it found here:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/12/install-firefox-4-beta-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat/
>>>
>>> It runs but about:plugins shows that no plugins are installed.
>>>
>>> How do I activate the plugins? In particular I was trying to get the
>>> java plugin to work.  I have installed the Sun jre and plugin from the
>>> partners repository.
>>>
>>> I am testing this on Meekrat running in virtualbox on Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64.
>>>
>>> Thanks,  Jim
>>>
>> Put or syslink plugins to this folder
>> /usr/lib/firefox-4.0b8/plugins
> Would that simlink be placed in .mozilla/firefox to 'plugins/' ?

I would place a "simlink" in my mobile phone but put a "symlink" in my 
Linux distro, that's what I would do if I had to that is...... :-) .

BC

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