Get QuakeLive Plugin working in Firefox 4 on Linux

For all of those out there who have problems getting the QuakeLive plugin to work with Firefox 4 in Linux here's a little how to on getting it up and running. When you go to the page and you don't have the plugin installed yet, the page tries to install it for you, but it will complain about the version of Firefox 4 being incompatible with the quakelive plugin. This is why we need to modify the plugin file a little bit so our Firefox 4 will accept it.

Basically all you need to do is get the xpi file QuakeLivePlugin_433.xpi open it up with your Archive Manager and edit the install.rdf file and add the following content to the file.

::

quakeliveplugin@idsoftware.com 1.0.433

toolkit@mozilla.org 1.9 2.0.*

QuakeLive.com Game Launcher Extension required for play on www.quakelive.com id Software, Inc. true

Once you've done that simply drag and drop the modded QuakeLivePlugin_433.xpi to Firefox 4 and it will ask you to confirm.

If you are to lazy to modded the xpi your own, simply download my modded version. I confirm that it's malware free etc. I am using the same one so I wouldn't infect myself right! So there you go QuakeLivePlugin_433.xpi.

Open up Firefox 4 again and you should be able to go to www.quakelive.com without the site complaining.

If it's still not working try the following... Once you've installed the plugin close down Firefox 4 and open up a console. We'll need to copy the *.so files from the plugin to ~/.mozilla/plugins/.

root@box:~$ cd .mozilla/
root@box:~$ mkdir plugins
root@box:~$ cd plugins
root@box:~$ cp ~/.mozilla/firefox/profileid/extensions/quakeliveplugin\@idsoftware.com/plugins/* .

Open up Firefox 4 again and you should be able to go to www.quakelive.com without the site complaining.

If you should have trouble try ldd on the so files to see if you have every needed dependencies installed.

root@box:~$ cd .mozilla/plugins/
root@box:~$ ldd *.so
npquakelive.i386.so:
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf76f5000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0xf73ed000)
        libXxf86dga.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXxf86dga.so.1 (0xf73e7000)
        libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXxf86vm.so.1 (0xf73e1000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXext.so.6 (0xf73d2000)
        libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libasound.so.2 (0xf731d000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7319000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf7306000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib32/libresolv.so.2 (0xf72f1000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf72d8000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf71df000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf71b9000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf719c000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7055000)
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libxcb.so.1 (0xf703b000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf7037000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf7030000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib32/librt.so.1 (0xf7027000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf76f6000)
npquakelive.x64.so:
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffffebff000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f467ffe2000)
        libXxf86dga.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libXxf86dga.so.1 (0x00007f467fdda000)
        libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libXxf86vm.so.1 (0x00007f467fbd2000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6 (0x00007f467f9bd000)
        libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libasound.so.2 (0x00007f467f6e6000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f467f4e1000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f467f2c9000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib64/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f467f0b3000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f467ee96000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f467eb83000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f467e902000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f467e6ea000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f467e391000)
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f467e173000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00007f467df69000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f4680711000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f467dd65000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f467db5e000)

Hope this helped someone out there, keep on fraggin'. Credit goes out to the whole quakelive forum and especially to the users LinuxFromRussia, Diplodok and so forth.

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