firefox plugins

[Kevin J. Cummings]

John Thompson wrote:
> On 2008-05-05, Gerhard Magnus <magnus at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
> Fedora's Firefox looks in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.14/plugins, but some 
> 3rd party plugin installers drop them in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Just 
> create sym-links from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to 
> /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.14/plugins, e.g.:
> 
> ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/* /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.14/plugins/

Firefox is *supposed* to use an internal search path to look for 
plugins.  (According to the last Mozilla documentation I read) its 
supposed to include the current install directory (in this case 
/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.14.plugins), a generic firefox location (usually 
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins) and the old mozilla directory 
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.  If Fedora is modifying this path, then they 
are changing users expectations, which usually is a bad thing.  However, 
I will agree with you.  I haven't had luck with the above either, and I 
usually end up putting symlinks in place to make it work the way I want 
it to.

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