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Change language on firefox3

Friday, April 11th, 2008

System: Ubuntu Gutsy
Software: Firefox3
If you want to change language on firefox (for ubuntu and i suppose for other distro) simple install you preferred language from:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0b5/linux-i686/xpi/
and install locale switcher from:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/356
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Miro sun-java6-plugin crash and icedtea:sun for firefox and icedtea for miro

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

System: Ubuntu Gutsy
Software: miro
Other: sun-java6-plugin , icedtea
If you like it is possible to use sun-java6-plugin for firefox and icedtea plugin for miro (this is only a tip):
If you have installed sun-java-plugin miro and icedtea
yuo have
firefox java plugin point to:
/etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so
firefox-javaplugin.so point to
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-icedtea/jre/lib/i386/gcjwebplugin.so
miro use mozilla-javaplugin.so
this point to:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-icedtea/jre/lib/i386/gcjwebplugin.so
in ubuntu:
sudo update-alternatives –config java
and select sun java.
after:
cd /etc/alternatives
after:
sudo ln -sf […]

Tip for miro and sun-java6-plugin crash

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

System: Ubuntu Gutsy
Software:miro
Other: sun-java6-plugin
This is only a simple tips to “resolve” problem of crash if you use sun-java6-plugin with miro
The tip is to duplicate
/usr/lib/firefox
sudo cp -r /usr/lib/firefox /usr/lib/miro
after
cd /usr/lib/miro/plugins
remove plugin java:
rm libjavaplugin.so
after modify mozillaLibPath:
nano /usr/share/miro/resources/app.config
mozillaLibPath=/usr/lib/miro
A this point miro work and not crash.

Firefox3 tips, prevent sun-java6-plugin crash and other

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

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: […]