Firefox, Plugins, Totally CORNfused

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 14:37 -0500, Jim wrote:
> I have two FC8 X86_64 boxes running Firefox-2.0.0.12-i386.
> 
> Box 1
> Has plugins, Flash, JRE, Mplayerplug-in in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
> If you do a 'about:plugins' in Firefox you can see the plugins listed.
> 
> Box 2
> Has plugins, Flash, JRE, Mplayerplug-in in /usr/lib/mozilla,
> But if I do a 'about:plugins' in firefox, no plugins are listed.
> If I put plugins Flash, JRE in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.12/plugins and 
> then do a 'about:plugins' I then can see plugins listed in firefox.
> How can I get the Mplayerplug-in in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.12/plugins .
> 
> And Most of all , why isn't the plugins not being read from 
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins in both Boxes ??
> 
> First one to figure this out gets my heart felt THANKS.
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x86_64 has a different directory...

/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

you can however register plugins (F8 only) by using the command...

/usr/bin/mozilla-plugin-config --help

Craig