Ubuntu
helix-player package

  1. Bug #147505
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 147505

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Jorge Moraleda (jorge-moraleda) wrote : Re: helix plugin not loaded by firefox. Work around.

I have observed the same packaging bug. Firefox will not discover the helix plugin until symbolic links are created in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins. These links should be created by the package installer, but they are not.

A work around is to create the symbolic links manually as follows:
     sudo ln -s /etc/alternatives/mozilla-browser_nphelix.mozilla-browser_nphelix.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/nphelix.so
     sudo ln -s /etc/alternatives/mozilla-browser_nphelix.mozilla-browser_nphelix.xpt /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/nphelix.xpt