Installing Firefox4 beta with working plugins

Goh Lip g.lip at gmx.com
Sun Jan 16 18:50:36 UTC 2011


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

Regards - Goh Lip

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