Firefox4 Beta plugins (again)

Jonathan Dlouhy dlouhy55 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 17 23:22:00 UTC 2011


On 1/17/2011 5:52 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> On Sunday the 16th Goh Lip was kind enough to give me some 
> instructions on how to get plugins recognized in the Firefox4 beta.  I 
> did what he suggested but they still don't appear in about:plugins.  I 
> think the problem was I didn't install it where he assumed I did and I 
> then got the symlink wrong.
>
> I am using Maverick amd64 and I downloaded the tar file from the 
> mozilla site and extracted it to my home directory. So it is at 
> /home/jfb/firefox. The Canonical version is in it's default location.
>
> Could someone post the command to create the symlink needed given this 
> info?
>
> Thanks,  Jim
>
>

Jim here's a link that should make this easier. AFAIK, it will install 
Firefox 4 alongside Firefox 3.

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/10/get-feel-of-firefox-4-in-ubuntu-1010.html

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