Re: firefox plugins in fedora 21

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/04/16 23:22, François Patte wrote:
>  I am wondering why firefox is unable to use the plugins (flash,
> icedtea)
>  unless I put an symlink in ~/.mozilla/plugins ?
>
>  Everything ok for the install of icedted-web:
>
>  /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so ->
>  /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64
>
>  and
>
>  /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 -> /usr/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
>
>  But this does not work and I have to put a link in my .mozilla/plugins 
I do not know why it doesn't work for you.  I have no sym link in ~/.mozilla/plugins 
just
an old directory from 2012 for moonlight that I never got to work properly.

[egreshko@meimei plugins]$ pwd
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

[egreshko@meimei plugins]$ ll
total 28
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    41 Mar 25 12:11 libflashplayer.so ->
/usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 19504 Mar  3 22:58 libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    41 Feb 22 05:56 libjavaplugin.so ->
/etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  6912 Feb 10 23:04 librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so

and all is well.

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