How to Join Webex Webinar on Firefox for Ubuntu Linux
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Today, I’m invited by Google Adsense team to join Adsense Webinar. Last time I’m tried to attend webex webinar using Linux, I haven’t succeeded (several years ago using other distro). Thanks god, now I can join webex webinar using Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron + Firefox. What I’m to do to fix this is:
Step 1: Type this command on your terminal:
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5 sun-java6-plugin
Step 2: Edit your ~/.profile and add these two lines:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.66
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
Step 3: Restart X session by logging off/on or ctrl+alt+backspace
That’s it, I’m done, now I can join webex webinar using Ubuntu Linux! Thank you for the author who posted this superb tips on his blogs.
Vincent Said,
June 16, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Thanks !
I was actually fighting to get this working for months now, and it never worked ! Every time I had to fall back to Window$ just to access it… and as usual, absolutely nothing useful from Webex itself !
However, I do not believe the JAVA_HOME and PATH env modifications are necesseray here. On my side, installing libstdc++5 was enough.
I would also add:
- Disable popup blocker for webex.com
- In “Enable Javascript”, allow “Move or resize existing windows” and “Disable or replace context menus”
That will do the trick !
abhi datt Said,
June 17, 2009 @ 9:28 am
I tried the same on Ubuntu 9.04,
Java was enabled and tested okay with this applet
http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml
after which I tested Webex
using the test site of Webex
http://support.webex.com/support/support-overview.html
It Displayed error,
“Java not enabled in your browser”
Anyone made Webex to run on Jaunty?
Larry Liu Said,
August 5, 2009 @ 8:32 am
Thanks! It works for me in Ubuntu 8.10 32bits.
In my case, package “sun-java6-plugin” is the one I had missed.