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Honored ContributorThanks for posting. I have since dug deeper and my set-up is now
VirtualBox 4.1.4 64 bit Mac OS 10.6.8 32 bit Ubuntu 11.1 (NB - 32 bits because I've encountered my share of 64 bit problems on the Mac) Quartus 11.0sp1 installed in /opts/Altera ..... Firefox 7.0.1 In the Quartus Tools/Options the Network Connectivity is /usr/bin/firefox. (It's not in sbin.) Opening Quartus from the shell and then attempting to access anything in the help file, I got no warning window, implying that the browser's location is valid. However, in the shell I found the printout Couldn't load XPCOM and of course, Firefox wasn't therefore opened. Running /usr/bin/firefox in the shell launches Firefox correctly so I'm pretty certain my Ethernet settings (inherited from my Mac) are correct. However, an obscure warning (see# 34) is generated – a red herring I think. ldconfig -p shows that the Firefox library is on the library path and in particular libxpcom.so is shown. As a precaution I installed ia32-libs-multiarch – to no effect. At this point I'm almost out of ideas! I can only think some library is missing but I have no indication of what it could be.
