Flash plugin - where?

[James Hubbard]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<D.Mierzejewski at icm.edu.pl> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:05:35PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>
>> > When I install Flash plugin (or other Firefox plugins)
>> > the plugin is installed in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ .
>> >
>> > These plugins are not listed when I enter "about:plugins" in Firefox,
>> > and they do not appear to be active.
>> >
>> > However, if I link these plugin files to ~/.mozilla/plugins/
>> > then they are listed and are active.
>> >
>> > Is this normally required?
>> > Or have I omitted some step in installing plugins?
>>
>> Sorry to repeat an earlier posting,
>> but I never got a response to what seems to me
>> to be a fairly important question.
>>
>> Is this problem specific to me?
>> Or does everyone using Firefox under F-10 have to make this link?
>
> Is your firefox 32bit or 64bit? If the latter, then it won't look
> for plugins in /usr/lib because it can't use them without nspluginwrapper.
>

Of course....I should have remembered to put it in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins.