On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Philippe wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 23:58, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > Using the firefox-0.10.1-1.0PR1.9 RPM from the development tree, I find > > that it doesn't seem to look in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins for plugins as > > the older versions did. > > > > Is there a reason, or is that a bug? Is there a workaround short of > > copying the plugins to /usr/lib/firefox-0.10.1/plugins/? > > It seems to me that this directory is used from Firefox 0.9.1 and 0.9.3. > But is should use also the other one. At least this is what I understand > reading this : > > http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/firefox-linux.html#install-where Interesting. That reference seems to suggest that only the /usr/lib/firefox-<version>/plugins/ directory and the user's own ~/.mozilla/plugins directory are searched for plugins. That seems to be a major usability setback, as with no version-independent plugin directory, plugins have to be relocated at every upgrade of Firefox. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
