VMware Remote Console Plug-in

My Ubuntu 8.04 shipped Firefox 3.0.1 today. Unfortunately the Remote Console plugin is marked incompatible with this version.

I could solve this with a simple hack:

1. I downloaded the plugin (with wget) from https://127.0.0.1:5443/ui/plugin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x64.xpi,

2. unzipped the xpi,

3. in install.rdf I modified <em:maxVersion>3.0.0.</em:maxVersion> to <em:maxVersion>3.0.</em:maxVersion>,

4. zipped everything together into an xpi file

5. and installed this intomy Firefox 3.0.1

This works fine for me, but VMware should really provide an updated plugin.