Installing Firefox4 beta with working plugins

[Ric Moore]

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/' ? 

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