Firefox4 Beta plugins (again)

[Jonathan Dlouhy]

On 01/17/2011 10:35 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:
>> 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 
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jonathan Dlouhy
>> -----------------------
>> "Will the highways of the Internet become more few?"- George W. Bush
>>
>
> Jonathan,
>
> That works but, it installs Mindfield 4.0bpre10.  Also since it is put 
> out by Canonical I will not be able to update it using the updates 
> pushed out by mozilla.  That's the reason I started looking into it.
>
> Thanks,  Jim
>

OK Jim, sorry it didn't work for you. I don't know what the differences 
between Canonical's releases and Mozilla's are, but that version is at 
least the most recent version available. Best of luck.

Jon