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[Kam Leo]

On 7/2/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 09:37 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I've been wishing that somehow, someone would manage to get it all in
> > one sock someday, this 10+ copies of "browsername-version/plugins" dir
> > crap in at least 2 branches of the filesystem tree is a genuine PITA
> > when doing browseer updates and has been for years.
>
> I've found that, for quite some time, probably since FC4, that most
> plug-ins are automatically installed into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, and
> they work for all browsers.
>
> Almost likewise for search engine plug-ins (they work if put there, but
> a user can't automatically install them there).  Thankfully, someone
> finally fixed that so users wanting to install search engine plug-ins,
> can do so - they're installed into their personal space.
>
> The /usr/lib/firefox-x.y.z mish-mash of directories only need to hold
> things specific to those particular versions of the web browser.  Oddly,
> older ones don't seem to get removed when updating the browser.  Well,
> they're devoid of any files other than the plug-ins, on mine (which are
> really links to the flash plug-in).

That's not odd. The plugins directory is not removed because
additional files, i.e. plugins (not from original installation), were
added.

By the way, the same thing happens in the Windows world.