Re: [orca-list] OT: Replacement of FF2 by FF3

[Henning Oschwald <listmail hoschwald de>]

On Setting Orange, day 29 of Confusion 3174, Hermann wrote:
> Henning Oschwald <listmail hoschwald de> writes:

> > What's the problem with unpacking FF3 to /usr/local/lib/firefox and
> > symlinking /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox to /usr/local/bin/firefox?
> > Finally, set it as your default browser in gnome (prefered applications)
> > and everything is fine.
> The problem is that there are some plugins that live in different
> directories than /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib. How can we include them?

By symlinking to  the plugin directory.

  rm -Rv /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins
  ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins

Of course, installing Firefox through the distribution specific package
manager is by far the best solution, however the other solution also works
until FF3 will get included into your distro of choice.

  Henning