Weird happenings in FC 5

[Kam Leo]

On 4/8/06, david walcroft <david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Something strange is going on
>
> 1/ Firefox/plugins had all the usual ln -s in it,with a copy in
> /mozilla/plugins,java,mplayerplugin,Adobe etc. All that is left
> from 48hrs ago is:-
>
> [david at reddwarf ~]$ ls /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.1/plugins/
> libnullplugin.so  libunixprintplugin.so
>
> [david at reddwarf ~]$ ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
> nphelix.so  nphelix.xpt
>
> And about:plugins shows
>
> 'Shockwave Flash'

flashplayer.xpt  libflashplayer.so

>
> 'Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible'

nphelix.xpt   nphelix.so

>
> and these aren't even in any of the plugin dirs.

>
> 2/ I went to ln -s the Java and Adobe files from /usr/local
> and they were gone (the whole prog.) ,I checked for files in other dirs
> and ~~ nothing!
> its as if I didn't install them!
>
> Installing plugins for Firefox-1.5 is still the same ---isn't it.
>

Most plugins are being installed into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins so that
Firefox updates do not require reinstallation of the plugins

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