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Hello,
Forgive me if I have not posted this in the right place... I am trying to start Firefox from within XBMC using the advanced launcher. I have Firefox installed and it's working from the desktop, however, when I use the advanced launcher and drill down into the directory the executable doesn't seem to be listed. Can you help?
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The path/executable is: /usr/bin/firefox
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For some reason on my system it was installed in usr/jim/firefox. When I go to the desktop I can see all the files in the folder and I have set up a source within the l;auncher, but when I drill down to it to execute it there is nothing I can click on. Thanks for your help!
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No - I still have the same problem. I'm not sure why the executable is not showing up in the advanced launcher. I've set up a source to point to that directory, but when I drill down to it in the launcher the executable is not listed. Thank you!
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So, did you check for the existence of /usr/bin/firefox ?
If you installed Firefox via Synaptics, that's where it should be located.
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It is not in that directory. I installed firefox from the chromuim browser in the xbmcbuntu desktop and it put it in /home/jim/firefox. it works fine from the desktop - I just want to be able to launch it from xbmc eden. Thanks.
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Thank you - I have the executor addon installed and I am able to drill down to firefox and click on it, but when I do nothing seems to happen. Should I open another thread for that. I'm not sure where to go from here. Thanks!
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Did you complete the steps to creating a launcher for Firefox? In other words, after you drill down the file browser and select the "firefox" executable from your hard drive location, you will be prompted to provide arguments. Just click Done and you will be prompted to enter a title (should be prefilled with "firefox"). Enter your desired title or accept the default value and click Done. Now go back to the home page and select PROGRAM. Click on the "Executor" entry and you should see your "firefox" entry listed. Click "firefox" and it should windowize XBMC and launch Firefox. When you close Firefox, your XBMC window is restored to fullscreen.
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Well, I'd thought I'd done all that, but I must be missing something basic here. (My apologies).
When I drill down to programs, then to executor, and when I click on executor I get a directory structure again to start the setup of the executor again. I must be doing something wrong here. Sorry for the newbie questions....Can you help?
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Thank you so much! That worked perfectly! I had to create the plugin directory and the config file, but after that it worked great! Thank you!
I still have a couple of other issues to work through - I'll open another thread. Thanks again!