Flash plugin - where?

[Timothy Murphy]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

>> > When I install Flash plugin (or other Firefox plugins)
>> > the plugin is installed in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ .
>> > 
>> > These plugins are not listed when I enter "about:plugins" in Firefox,
>> > and they do not appear to be active.
>> > 
>> > However, if I link these plugin files to ~/.mozilla/plugins/
>> > then they are listed and are active.
>> > 
>> > Is this normally required?
>> > Or have I omitted some step in installing plugins?
>> 
>> Sorry to repeat an earlier posting,
>> but I never got a response to what seems to me
>> to be a fairly important question.
>> 
>> Is this problem specific to me?
>> Or does everyone using Firefox under F-10 have to make this link?
> 
> Is your firefox 32bit or 64bit? If the latter, then it won't look
> for plugins in /usr/lib because it can't use them without nspluginwrapper.

It's 32-bit Fedora (with KDE) on a Thinkpad T43.

Maybe there is a setting to make Firefox look in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins ?
I notice that browsing to "about:config" gives (among much other info)
  plugin_default_plugin_disabled true
but this is the default setting for this parameter.




> 
> Regards,
> R.
>