Standardising firefox plugin installation

[Christopher Aillon]

David Nielsen wrote:
> søn, 03 09 2006 kl. 18:23 -0400, skrev Christopher Aillon:
>> David Nielsen wrote:
>>> It's come to my attention through painful experience that if you install
>>> a plugin like gnash or the totem plugin there doesn't seem to be a set
>>> standard for where to install these. This leads to many issues like
>>> other gecko based browsers, like my beloved Epiphany, doesn't pick these
>>> up.
>>>
>> It's been $libdir/mozilla/plugins since the Red Hat Linux days.  If you 
>> feel the need to go through some formal process of review for its 
>> location, go for it, but too many things already rely on that directory 
>> and it won't be changing.
> 
> I wasn't suggesting changing the directory as such, I merely wondered if
> we had a standard (defacto or otherwise) since it did not appear that
> way when actually checking if the plugins were picked up in Epiphany. 

Epiphany might simply not be looking there.  Do your plugins get picked 
up if you export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=$libdir/mozilla/plugins prior to 
launching epiphany?

> I'm happy to see that we do infact have an unofficial standard, now we
> are still stuck with some issues. I take it since something like the
> gnash plugin does install in the correct place not being picked up by
> Firefox is a bug then?

Probably.  In gnash more likely than not if other plugins get loaded 
properly.