Firefox Plugin Problems Redux

[Jim Martin]

Ken Nordquist wrote:

> Hey Y'all...
>
> I too am having plugin problems with Firefox.  I am using the x86_64 
> arch.  I am not a newbie to Linux or Redhat/Fedora and I am puzzled 
> and could use some insight.
>
> First, I installed mozplugger and Firefox sees it just fine.  So I 
> tried linking the java library to the same directory 
> (/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins), deleted my pluginreg.dat and fired up 
> Firefox again...  but when I put in 'about:plugins' all I saw/see is 
> mozplugger.  I then tried linking to other potential directories 
> (/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, /usr/lib64/mozilla-1.7.6/plugins, 
> ~/.mozilla/plugins, and /usr/lib64/mozilla-1.7.6/plugins) all to no 
> avail.
>
> After banging my head on the Firefox wall, I decided to install 
> Mozilla and see what happened.  Voila, it works...  using 
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.  I am particularly puzzled why mozplugger 
> shows, but no other plugins show.  I have not enabled selinux on this 
> box yet so I am fairly confident it is not a selinux issue.  Also, I 
> can uninstall and reinstall mozplugger and watch it come and go from 
> Firefox's 'about:plugins'.  I even renamed my ~/.mozilla directory so 
> it would be recreated to see if that made a difference (and it did not).
>
> Any and all input is solicited and appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ken Nordquist
>
> PS.  In the near future I will be initiating a flamewar on why 
> gnuchess and xboard are no longer FC core items.
>
the only way I could get firefox to see the java plugin was to link it 
to .mozilla/firefox/plugins and it worked, but if I linked it to 
.mozilla/plugins it would not see it. go figure :-)

BaVinic