Latest firefox doesn't pick up plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla

Louis Garcia louisg00 at bellsouth.net
Tue Oct 19 20:19:52 UTC 2004


Spoke to soon. Today I booted my box and fired up firefox and the
plugins are gone again. about:plugins showed only the default plugin. I
fired up mozilla and sure enough the plugins were their. This has to be
a firefox problem.

--Louis


On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 02:45 +0000, Louis Garcia wrote:
> > > I've placed flash and java plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla and firefox
> > > picked them up. With the latest version of firefox this does not happen.
> > >  firefox-0.10.1-1.0PR1.12 is the version I'm running.
> > 
> > worksforme
> > rpm -q firefox
> > firefox-0.10.1-1.0PR1.12
> > ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
> > flashplayer.xpt    libjavaplugin_oji.so  nphelix.xpt
> > libflashplayer.so  nphelix.so
> > 
> > about:plugins  in firefox lists java shockwave flash and helix.
> > 
> > -jef
> 
> I removed and installed the plugins again and it works now.
> Don't know what happened there.
> 
> --Louis




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