Where does Firefox-3 keep its plugins?
Jonathan Ryshpan
jonrysh at pacbell.net
Thu Jun 5 18:23:21 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 11:55 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 09:40 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > Entering "about:plugins" to the URL box in Firefox-3 produces the
> > message "No plugins are installed". Ditto for Tools->Add-ons->Plugins.
> > Also the main Firefox directory, /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0b5 (this machine
> > is an x86_64) has no plugins subdirectory.
> >
> > So where does Firefox-3 keep its plugins?
>
> Check /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins dir and see what is there.
Plugins there and lots of plugins in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins (this
system is x86_64), but Firefox-3 doesn't seem to see them.
$ ll /usr/lib*/mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:
total 132
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Jun 4 19:32 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 127260 Jun 2 16:51 nppdf.so*
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins:
total 1148
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85272 May 28 02:20 gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1375 May 28 02:20 gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85432 May 28 02:20 gecko-mediaplayer-qt.so*
...
Thanks - jon
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