I'm having trouble getting Google Hangouts to work on my Ubuntu 12.04
home PC (32-bit) under Firefox 20.0.
Each time I try to join or start a Hangout, the web page tells me to
install their plugin 'Install the Hangouts Plugin to get started' ,
and I go thru the steps to do so, but then when I try again, it tells
me to install again. This is even after restarting Firefox or
rebooting.
I've tried removing and installing it more manually via:
sudo apt-get remove google-talkplugin
sudo apt-get install google-talkplugin
And those seemed to work fine, but didn't fix the problem.
This installed google-talkplugin (libnpgoogletalk.so) version
3.17.0.0-1.
The about:addons page does not list anything that seems to be the
talkplugin or hangout-related, so it looks like firefox is not
finding or recognizing the plugin (or finds it invalid or something).
But there is a /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgoogletalk.so library
installed, and there are two links to it:
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libnpgoogletalk.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnpgoogletalk.so
(it looks like /usr/lib/firefox/plugins is directory being used).
The /etc/log/syslog doesn't seem to have anything related to this
re-install.
Is there a way to to get more diagnostics about the firefox plugin
checking? Can I tell it to add a particular dynamic library (.so)
file
(and get log messages from that)?
Or is this a known problem already being worked on?
Thanks,
- Wayne -