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  firefox cant use or find or install or update vmware-plugin

keywords : firefox plugin install vmware

I dont know exactely what caused my problem cause I did two things at the same time:

i) changed the httpd-port from my vmware-server
ii) upgraded firefox to 3.0.4

However I ended up in not beeing able to open vmware-console within firefox.

I was asked to install a missing plugin and when I tried so the list of available plugins was empty.
I went to tools->add-ons and tried to update my vmware-plugin but I only got the following helpful error: "an error occured while trying to find updates for vmware remote console plug-in"

Solution:
uninstall the vmware-plugin and when you try to access console in vmware-mui in firefox again you will be presented the "install plugin" directly in the console-window and then you can reinstall it and everythings works fine.

I havent found any reference to my problem in the web so far, so it seems I'm the first and only one ;)

peter at 2008-11-24 (updated 2008-11-24)

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