firefox plugin developer tools?

[cathyf]

We have a project of porting a firefox plugin to ubuntu. It's written in c++, and I am using netbeans as an IDE. We have gotten the plugin to build, and plopped a softlink to the .so file into ~/.mozilla/plugins. If I launch firefox from the command line, going to the page that wants to load the plugin gives an error message (which means that, yes, it is trying to load the right thing.)

Ok, so I am a rank newbie to ubuntu, and have only used netbeans for java development, not for c++. Can anyone give me some instructions here? How do I get my plugin to come up in the netbeans debugger? Any other useful/pertinent advice?

Thanks!
cathy :-)