Standardising firefox plugin installation

[David Nielsen]

søn, 03 09 2006 kl. 18:50 -0400, skrev Christopher Aillon:
> David Nielsen wrote:
> > søn, 03 09 2006 kl. 18:23 -0400, skrev Christopher Aillon:
> >> David Nielsen wrote:
> >>> It's come to my attention through painful experience that if you install
> >>> a plugin like gnash or the totem plugin there doesn't seem to be a set
> >>> standard for where to install these. This leads to many issues like
> >>> other gecko based browsers, like my beloved Epiphany, doesn't pick these
> >>> up.
> >>>
> >> It's been $libdir/mozilla/plugins since the Red Hat Linux days.  If you 
> >> feel the need to go through some formal process of review for its 
> >> location, go for it, but too many things already rely on that directory 
> >> and it won't be changing.
> > 
> > I wasn't suggesting changing the directory as such, I merely wondered if
> > we had a standard (defacto or otherwise) since it did not appear that
> > way when actually checking if the plugins were picked up in Epiphany. 
> 
> Epiphany might simply not be looking there.  Do your plugins get picked 
> up if you export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=$libdir/mozilla/plugins prior to 
> launching epiphany?

Still doesn't show up.. odd indeed. 

- David