Just tested.
The uninstall & reinstall trick fixes the startup issue.
Among the four plugins available in the repo, only the Pidgin protocol plugin works, all the other three don't. I have tested them one by one.
Something I don't understand: when starting FreOffice I am brought to the "Open file" , I have tried a number of plain txt and doc files. The txt files loads but the fonts are in very light grey and too small to read. The doc files don't load at all. Anyone also find this?