Mar 13 2008
Firefox3 tips, prevent sun-java6-plugin crash and other
System: Ubuntu Gutsy
Software: Firefox-3.0
Other: sun-java6-plugin
If you like to install firefox3 in ubuntu gutsy this is possible with universe repository:
see this link for ubuntu
and this link for kubuntu
Tips:
1) Activate plugins:
cd /usr/lib/firefox
sudo cp -r plugins /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/
2) cd /usr/lib/firefox-3.0
remove libunixprintplugin.so to prevent crash whit this error:
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins/libunixprintplugin.so [libxpcom_core.so: impossibile aprire il file oggetto condiviso: Nessun file o directory]
sudo rm libunixprintplugin.so
3) If you use sun-java6-plugin and in plugins directory is not present the plugin, create symbolic link:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
restart firefox3 and plugin work.
4) If firefox3 crash with java:
open firefox3
digit about:config in the url bar
find java.java_plugin_library_name;
and change javaplugin_oji with libjavaplugin_oji
Tags: Firefox3, Firefox3 java crash, Firefox3 java segmentation fault, Java, Ubuntu
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