Adventures of Vmware 2.02 and Firefox > 3.6

I still had some issues with VMWare and Firefox ...

1. VMWare plugin was not working 

Turned out that this was due to the newer versions of Firefox. Simple workaround I read off the web was to just  download and extract an older version of Firefox 3.5 to some folder and run a separate instance of firefox just for the VMWare plugin. I settled for this. This link   will be useful. 

2. Keyboard not working correctly in the VMWare plugin

Once the plugin started working, I got my old problem back. The keyboard was not working correctly inside Windows VMs, where in it would randomly lose focus and gain focus.

I found the solution here.

Simple steps are:

1. Export this variable in the environment right after login such that it will be set before starting Firefox: VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes
2. Best option is set this variable in the /etc/profile like this:
export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes
3. For now just run: 
. ./etc/profile
or Reboot the system

4. Run firefox and check.

For more troubleshooting tips, check Marcus Orfila's page VMware server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 10.04